Microsoft corp. Declared two employees, who disrupted a program celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company.
Ibtihal Abusad, who urged the company to hit the Israeli government as a customer, on Friday disrupted a speech by Microsoft Consumer Artificial intelligence chief Mustafa Suleman. Later, Vanya Aggarwal interrupted a question-answer session with Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella and her two predecessors, Bill Gates and Steve Balmer.
Both employees were asked to leave the venue by the event staff, a tent that was built in one of the athletic areas in the Microsoft’s Redmund, Washington, Headquarters Complex.
According to an email reviewed by Bloomberg, the company informed Absad that its employment was finished due to “acts of misconduct”. Aggarwal promised to resign effectively on April 11, but Microsoft on Monday told him that he immediately accepted his resignation effectively.
The company did not immediately comment.
“Mustafa is a shame on you,” Absad told Suleman, in the part. “You claim that you care for good use of AI, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli army. Fifty thousand people have died.”
Suleman replied, “Thank you for your opposition. I hear you.”
Microsoft, in the expiration notice, Aboussad reported that the allegations were “hostile, unsafe and highly inappropriate.”
Both employees worked as software engineers, they told Bloomberg last week. They are associated with Azure for apartheid, a group that has opposed the sale of Microsoft to the Israeli army on the conduct of the country in their war in Gaza. The pair lost access to their corporate emails and chat accounts, after Friday, they said.
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