Microsoft says it is Azure and Ai Tech did not harm people in Gaza

Microsoft says it did not find any evidence that the Israeli army had used AZURE and AI to harm Palestinian civilians or anyone else in Gaza. The programmaker says An internal review and an external company participated “to conduct a review, after some Microsoft employees have repeatedly called on the company to reduce its contracts with the Israeli government.

Microsoft says its relationship with the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) is a “standard trade relationship”, and that it “did not find any evidence that the techniques of AZURE and AI from Microsoft, or any of our other programs, have been used to harm people or that IMOD failed to comply with our service conditions or our AI’s behavior code.” Microsoft AI’s behavior rules blog Customers require the use of human supervision control and access tools to ensure that Cloud and AI services are not enrolled in any way that law prohibits. “

The review process included “interviewing dozens of employees and evaluating documents”, looking for evidence that Microsoft technologies were used to target or harm anyone in Gaza. However, the company notes that it “does not have a vision of how customers use our programs on their own servers or other devices”, so the evidence rejected on its review is very limited in its scope.

The review comes a few weeks after two former Microsoft employees in the fiftieth event in the company, with the CEO of Microsoft Ai, Mustafa Suleiman, summoned the CEO of Microsoft Ai, Mustafa Suleiman, The “war beneficiary” is demanding Microsoft “stop using artificial intelligence to genocide in our region.” The second protester The co -founder of Microsoft Bill GatesFormer CEO Steve Palmer, CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella later at this event.

Both former Microsoft employees also sent separate email messages to thousands of co -workers, protesting the company that provides software, cloud services and advisory services to the Israeli army. The first protesters, Ibtihal AbousSad, LaunchedThe second, Vania Agrawal, was rejected shortly after her notification was made for two weeks. Both are linked to No Azure to separate the apartheidA group of current and former Microsoft employees who gather against Microsoft contracts with Israel.

The group accuses Microsoft of “supporting and empowering the state of apartheid” by not suspending sales of cloud services and AI to Israel, As I did with Russia When Ukraine invaded. He also highlighted reports from Guardian and Associated PressBased on the leaked documents, which separate the increasing use of the Israeli army of Azure and Openai to collect information through collective monitoring and the use of artificial intelligence tools to copy and translate phone calls, texts and audio messages. According to Microsoft 19,000 hours of engineering and consulting services to the Israeli army, in a deal that is said to be worth about 10 million dollars.

“It should be noted that armies usually use their programs or applications from defense service providers for the types of monitoring and operations that were the subject of our employees’ questions,” Microsoft says at the blog post. “Microsoft has not created, presented such a program or solutions to IMOD.”

Hossam NASR, Nozure for Apartheid, has a problem in Microsoft’s statement, saying it is “full of lies and contradictions” in Interview with Geekwire.

Nasr says: “There is no form of technology selling to an army that is reasonably accused of genocide – whose leaders overlook the war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court – which will be ethical,” Nasr says. “This is the hypothesis that we reject.” Nasr also highlighted that the Microsoft statement states Israel several times, but “they have never named Palestinians, the Palestinian people or Palestine” in the blog publication. “I think this is still talking to where Microsoft’s commercial interests are really lying.”