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Leaders
14-04-2025
- Business
- Leaders
Microsoft AI CEO Faces Accusations of Supporting Israel's Genocide in Gaza
During Microsoft's 50th anniversary in Washington, AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman was unexpectedly interrupted by a pro-Palestinian employee that accused him of providing Israel with AI technologies during its war in Gaza. 'Mustafa, shame on you.' 'You claim that you care about using AI for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military. Fifty-thousand people have died and Microsoft powers this genocide in our region,' former Microsoft AI engineer Ibtihal Aboussad shouted and paused Suleyman's speech. Suleyman calmly attempted to de-escalate the situation and said, 'Thank you for your protest, I hear you.' However, Aboussad shouted and said that Suleyman and 'all of Microsoft' had blood on their hands, according to Associated Press. Mustafa Suleyman, a British-Syrian AI expert, has been appointed as Microsoft's AI CEO since March 2024. In 2010, Suleyman co-founded DeepMind, one of the world's pioneering AI research companies, along with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg. Then, he left the company in 2019 after leading the application of AI systems to offer advanced solutions for real-world problems. @khabarmena من مهاجر سوري إلى ملياردير يقود الذكاء الاصطناعي.. من هو مصطفى_سليمان رئيس الذكاء الاصطناعي بشركة مايكروسوفت ؟ اتفرج_على_تيك_توك ابتهال_أبو_السعد ♬ الصوت الأصلي – Khabar – خبر – Khabar – خبر Consequently, he co-found Inflection AI, an artificial intelligence research institute, where he served as Co-founder and CEO. Suleyman was selected as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his remarkable success in AI. Microsoft AI CEO is generally known for his unwavering support for refugees. However, he is currently facing various accusations of providing Israel with AI models to select bombing targets during its wars in Gaza and Lebanon, according to an investigation by the Associated Press News Agency. Related Topics: Pro-Palestinian Engineer Accuses Microsoft of Supporting Gaza's Genocide Microsoft Shares Fall After Accusations of Assisting Israeli Genocide with AI Models 'Zionists Showed Us What Real Evil, Hate Are': Outcry for Gaza Short link : Post Views: 1
Leaders
13-04-2025
- Business
- Leaders
Microsoft Shares Fall After Accusations of Assisting Israeli Genocide with AI Models
Microsoft shares had fallen sharply after former Microsoft AI engineer Ibtihal Aboussad courageously interrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebration and accused Microsoft of supporting Genocide in Gaza. The Moroccan engineer has interrupted Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's speech and accused the company of providing the Israeli military with artificial intelligence technologies during its war in Gaza, according to the Associated Press. 'Mustafa, shame on you.' 'You claim that you care about using AI for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military. Fifty-thousand people have died and Microsoft powers this genocide in our region,' Aboussad shouted and paused Suleyman's speech. Suleyman calmly attempted to de-escalate the situation and said, 'Thank you for your protest, I hear you.' However, Aboussad shouted and said that Suleyman and 'all of Microsoft' had blood on their hands. As a response, Microsoft has fired Aboussad and accused her of making 'hostile, unprovoked, and highly inappropriate accusations' against Suleyman. After the video went viral on social media, thousands of Arabs have harshly criticized Suleyman in his account on LinkedIn. Meanwhile, people on social media widely shared Aboussad's video and commended her courage and noble instance. Israel significantly depends on AI models from Microsoft and OpenAI to determine bombing targets during its wars in Gaza and Lebanon, according to an investigation by the Associated Press News Agency. Since the beginning of Hamas-Israel War in Gaza, the Israeli occupation has killed at least 50,695 Palestinians and wounded 115,338, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Related Topics: Israel Targets Gaza City's Last Functioning Hospital as Hamas Delegation Arrives in Cairo Saudi Arabia Urges Global Action to End Gaza Blockade Israeli Military Fires Reservists over Gaza War Criticism Short link : Post Views: 4
Leaders
13-04-2025
- Business
- Leaders
Pro-Palestinian Engineer Accuses Microsoft of Supporting Gaza's Genocide
Former Microsoft AI engineer Ibtihal Aboussad has courageously interrupted the company's 50th anniversary celebration and accused Microsoft of supporting Genocide in Gaza, according to the Associated Press. The Moroccan engineer has interrupted Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's speech and accused the company of providing the Israeli military with artificial intelligence technologies during its war in Gaza. 'Mustafa, shame on you.' 'You claim that you care about using AI for good, but Microsoft sells AI weapons to the Israeli military. Fifty-thousand people have died and Microsoft powers this genocide in our region,' Aboussad shouted and paused Suleyman's speech. It is worth mentioning that co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer were among the attendees of the celebration. Suleyman calmly attempted to de-escalate the situation and said, 'Thank you for your protest, I hear you.' However, Aboussad shouted and said that Suleyman and 'all of Microsoft' had blood on their hands. As a response, Microsoft has fired Aboussad and accused her of making 'hostile, unprovoked, and highly inappropriate accusations' against Suleyman. Importantly, Israel significantly depends on AI models from Microsoft and OpenAI to determine bombing targets during its wars in Gaza and Lebanon, according to an investigation by the Associated Press News Agency. Since the beginning of Hamas-Israel War in Gaza, the Israeli occupation has killed at least 50,695 Palestinians and wounded 115,338 more, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Related Topics: Israel Targets Gaza City's Last Functioning Hospital as Hamas Delegation Arrives in Cairo 'Those Fighting for Peace in Gaza Deserve Prize', Says Nobel Peace Laureate Saudi Arabia Urges Global Action to End Gaza Blockade Short link : Post Views: 1
Yahoo
12-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The CEO of Microsoft AI has some 'sort of obvious' advice for young people looking to succeed
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, said he expects the future of work to include "symbiotic relationships" with AI. In a podcast interview, he said younger generations will inherit a changed world. In order to prepare, he suggests people "play" with the models that are currently available. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman expects the workers of the future to develop close relationships with artificial intelligence agents, to the point of symbiosis. "I do think your day-to-day workflow just isn't going to look like this in 10 or 15 years time," Suleyman said on a recent episode of the "Big Technology" Podcast. "It's going to be much more about you managing your AI agent, you asking it to go do things, checking in on its quality, getting feedback, and getting into this symbiotic relationship where you iterate with it," he said. Suleyman, the cofounder of Google DeepMind, believes that people are too tied up in the "day-to-day" of AI and failing to reckon with its possible long-term impacts. "After all, it is intelligence that has produced everything that is of value in our human civilization," Suleyman said. "Everything around us is a product of smart human beings getting together, organizing, creating, inventing, and producing everything that you see in your line of sight at this very moment." Artificial intelligence, shrouded in its fair share of hype, hasn't yet delivered on the vision often painted by tech leaders — such as breakthroughs in medicine, like treatments for deadly diseases, or solutions to the climate crisis. But the technology has certainly begun to alter the world we live in. In some cases, applications of the technology have drawn concerns — such as AI's use in warfare or companies leaning on AI agents over human workers. Demis Hassabis, who co-founded Google DeepMind with Suleyman, has gone so far as to say he worries about ending up like Robert Oppenheimer. And there's no going back now — Suleyman, who's particularly optimistic about AI's future effects, only expects the pace of innovation to increase. "And we're now about to make that very same technique, those set of capabilities, really cheap — if not, like, zero marginal cost," he said. In order for younger generations to best prepare themselves to inherit a changed world, Suleyman suggests they familiarize themselves with the technology. "It's a little bit like saying, 'What should young people do when they get access to the internet for the first time?'" he said. "Like, part of it is sort of obvious, where it's like — use it, experiment, try stuff out, do crazy things, make mistakes, get it wrong." It's technology's users, Suleyman added, rather than its creators, that ultimately help determine the direction of its future development by identifying how it's best used. "As we've seen over and over in the history of technology, the things that people choose to do with their phones, with internet, with their laptops, with the tools that they have are always like mind-blowing," Suleyman said. "They're always way more inventive and surprising than anything you could possibly think of ahead of time." "I think the same applies to a 15-year-old who's in high school, thinking about what they do next in college or whatever, or whether or not they go to college," he added. In order to sort through the noise, Suleyman said, anyone curious should experiment with the models themselves. "I think the answer is, play with these things," he said. "Try them out, keep an open mind. Try everything that you possibly can with these models, and then you'll start to see their weaknesses as well, by the way, and you'll start to chip away at the hype." Read the original article on Business Insider
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Yahoo
Microsoft's head of AI wants to create an artificial overly-attached companion for us all: 'It will have its own name, its own style. It will adapt to you. It may also have its own visual appearance and expressions'
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. As part of Microsoft's 50th-anniversary celebrations, it's been talking a lot about its past but also its future and one doesn't need a crystal ball to figure out what that will entail. According to the CEO of Microsoft's AI division, we're all going to be seeing a lot more of Copilot and, ultimately, digital companions powered by AI that will form a "lasting, meaningful relationship" with you. This is all claimed by Mustafa Suleyman, the head of Microsoft's AI section, and he expounded on what this would all be like in an interview with the Associated Press. "My goal is really to create a true personal AI companion. And the definition of AGI [artificial general intelligence] sort of feels very far out to me and sort of not what I'm focused on in the next few years.' As to what he means by a 'companion', he explained by saying Microsoft's AI technology will be "[o]ne that knows your name, gets to know you, has a memory of everything that you've shared with it and talked about and really comes to kind of live life alongside you,' he told AP. "It's far more than just a piece of software or a tool. It is unlike anything we've really ever created." AI is already a big part of everything that Microsoft churns out these days, all wrapped up under the moniker of Copilot. From Office to Notepad, full operating systems to Surface laptops, the chatbot-on-steroids is ever-present but at least one never has to interact with it. I'm not suggesting for one moment that some aspects of the integration of Copilot aren't useful—for the right user, the features provide a variety of shortcuts to boost productivity or gain better insights into what you're doing. Like all software tools, it can be very useful or very useless. However, it's clear that Suleyman envisages something rather different for the future of Microsoft's AI. And we're not just talking about things in the far future. Some of this will start to roll out relatively soon, starting with Microsoft's mobile applications, which will gain some kind of 'visual memory capability' that sounds very much like the much-delayed Recall. Suleyman is no recent convert to the world of AI. Nearly 25 years ago, he co-founded and led DeepMind, a UK-based AI company that would ultimately be snapped up by Alphabet, Google's parent company, in 2014. DeepMind is famous for creating AlphaGo, an AI system that could give some professional Go masters a run for their money. After leaving Google in 2022, Suleyman went on to start up another artificial intelligence company, Inflection AI, before eventually joining Microsoft as the executive vice president and chief executive officer of its AI division in 2024. While clearly a big fan of AI and what it can do for us, he's also been a vocal proponent for the enforcement of AI ethics and the like. However, he's also well known for having the view that pretty much anything on the Internet is fair game to be used for AI training, which rather flies in the face of copyright laws. While attending this year's Game Developer Conference, I saw an awful lot of stands, press talks, and lectures on AI in games and gaming. Artificial NPCs, artificial gaming buddies, artificial advice, artificial rendering—AI couldn't be escaped. We might not see Suleyman's vision of an overly-attached AI companion anytime soon but given how much money Microsoft and the rest of the tech world are spending on all of this right now, you can be sure that it will happen. Windows 11 review: What we think of the latest OS. How to install Windows 11: Guide to a secure 11 TPM requirement: Strict OS security.
