Microsoft defends work with U.S. military

By artappraiser on Sat, 10/27/2018 - 2:57am |

[....] Smith acknowledged concerns, especially around AI, but said that Microsoft believes engaging in public dialog, while continuing to provide technology to the military is the best approach [....]

Smith also said that Microsoft will work with employees opposed to such work to transfer to other areas [....]

The context: A group of Microsoft employees signed a letter, posted on Medium, urging the software maker not to bid on the cloud computing contract.

"Many Microsoft employees don’t believe that what we build should be used for waging war," the letter states. "When we decided to work at Microsoft, we were doing so in the hopes of 'empowering every person on the planet to achieve more,' not with the intent of ending lives and enhancing lethality." [....]

URL:

https://www.axios.com/microsoft-defends-work-with-us-military-5a811969-b2f6-4bea-9164-f5a2070909d1.html