Microsoft’s security manager for AI, Neta Haiby, accidentally revealed confidential messages on Walmart use of Microsoft AI tools at a construction conference disrupted by the demonstrators.
The live construction was silent and the camera pointed out, but the session resumed a few moments later after the demonstrators were escorted. The next day, HaiBy then accidentally moved to Microsoft teams while sharing his screen, revealing confidential internal messages on the upcoming use of Walmart of Passerelle Entra and AI of Microsoft.
Haiby co-hosted a construction session on best safety practices for AI, alongside Sarah Bird, the head of AI responsible for Microsoft, when two former Microsoft employees disrupted the conversation to protest against the company’s cloud contracts with the Israeli government.
“Sarah, you whiten the lime of Microsoft lime in Palestine, how do you dare to talk about responsible AI when Microsoft feeds the genocide in Palestine,” shouted Hossam Nasr, an organizer with the No Azure protest group for apartheid, and an old employee of Microsoft who was killed for the vigil outside Microsoft.
Walmart is one of Microsoft’s largest corporate customers and already uses the company Azure Openai service for some of its AI work. “Walmart is ready for Rock and Roll with Entra Web and Ai Gateway,” said one of Microsoft’s Cloud solutions architects in team messages. The chat session has also cited a Walmart AI engineer, saying: “Microsoft is ahead of Google with IA security. We are delighted to follow this path with you.”
We asked Microsoft to comment on this event and the messages of the teams, but the company did not respond in time for publication.
The two demonstrators involved in this latest disturbance in Microsoft’s construction were former Microsoft employees, Vaniya Agrawal appearing alongside Nasr. Agrawal interrupted the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, the former CEO Steve Ballmer and CEO Satya Nadella later during the company’s 50th anniversary event last month. AGRAWAL was dismissed shortly after putting its two-week notice to Microsoft before the event, according to an email seen by The penis.
The latter demonstration comes a few days after Microsoft announced last week that he had carried out an internal examination and used an external company without names to assess how its technology is used in the war in Gaza. Microsoft says that its relationship with the Israeli Defense Ministry (IMOD) is “structured as a standard commercial relationship” and that it has “found any evidence that the AZURE and AI technologies of Microsoft, or one of our other software, have been used to harm people or that IMOD did not comply with our service or IA code.”
