Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza
Microsoft: On Thursday, he admitted that during the Gaza War, the Israeli soldiers sold artificial intelligence and cloud computational services and to support the Israeli hostages. But the company also said that it did not find that its gray platform and AI technologies had been used to target or damage people in Gaza.
IsUnlimited blog postThe company’s first public recognition of the Microsoft has its deep involvement in the war, which began after Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel and led to tens of thousands of thousands of people in Gaza.
It comes in almost three months Investigation by Associated Press Previously, the details of the Israeli Ministry of Defense revealed about the closer part of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, about 200 times, the Homas attack. The AP reports that the Israeli armed forces are used to transform, translate and process through the basket collected, which can proceed to the target systems and vice versa of Israeli PC.
The partnership reflects the engine growing by technology companies to sell their artificial intelligence products, including Israel, Ukraine and the United States. However, human rights groups have worried that AI Systems, which can be flawless and prone to mistakes, helping who or what to target the death of innocent people.
Microsoft said on Thursday that the employee’s concerns and the media reported that the company was offered to review internal and hire an external factor. The announcement did not detect external solid or provide a copy of its report.
The statement directly had a few questions about how the Israeli Armed Forces used its technology and the company refused to comment on Friday. Microsoft refused to answer AP written questions about how its AI models help translate, sort and analyze intelligence used for hostilities.
The company’s statement said that the Israeli armed forces provided a software, professional services, AI Cloud Storage and AI services, “above the terms of our commercial contracts” and “out of emergency” as part of efforts to save more than 250 hostages of humane.
“We have provided significant control over the limited basis, including the establishment of some polls and the denial of others,” Microsoft said. “We believe that the company has followed its principles considered and caused by a cautious basis to save the life of hostages to the privacy of Gaza citizens and other rights.
The company did not answer whether it had hired it with the Israeli military as part of its internal probe. It also did not respond to the requirements of additional details on the special assistance of Israeli troops to restore the hostages or the special steps of the rights of Palestinians and privacy.
In his statement, the company also lost that “it does not have visibility how customers use our software on their servers or other devices.” The company added that it could not know how its products could be used through other commercial clouds.
In addition to Microsoft, the Israeli Armed Forces have large-scale contracts for cloud or AI services LuckTo be in style ContricolativePalantir and several other large American technology enterprises.
Microsoft said the Israeli Armed Forces, like any other customer, had to follow the companyAcceptable use policyaeration ofAI Behavior Code:which prohibits the use of the product to cause damage to the law prohibited by law. In his statement, the company said he had found “no evidence” Israeli troops violated those conditions.
EMELIA PROBASCO, for the Senior Friend of the University of Original Technology, says that the announcement is remarkable, as commercial technology companies clearly determine the criteria for working with international governments.
“We are in a remarkable moment when the company, no government, does not dictate the conditions of use to the government, which is actively involved in conflict,” he said. “It’s like a tank producer who tells a country, you can only use our tanks for these special reasons. It’s a new world. “
Israel has used its huge intelligence exercise as the target of Islamic militants, as well as invasion of Gaza, which seeks to save hostages. For example, February 2024He released two Israeli hostages in Rafahresulted in the death of 60 Palestinians. June 2024Raid in the Nseyrat Refugee CampHe released four Israeli hostages from Kamas captivor, but led to at least 274 Palestinians.
In general, Israeli invasions and large-scale bombing campaigns have led to more than 50,000 people in Gaza and Lebanon, many of them women and children.
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“It is very clear that with this statement, their intentions are concerned about the concerns of their employee, but rather make a PR stunt to whensha, which undermined by the Israeli military in their relations.In OctoberAfter he helped organize an unauthorized awakening at the Palestinian headquarters killed in Gaza.
Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Border Fund, applauded Microsoft Friday to take steps to make transparency. But he said that the statement raised greatly unanswered questions, including the details of the Israeli military services used by the Israeli armed forces.
“I am glad that there is a little transparency here,” Hamon said, who has long called for US technology giants, to be more open to their military contracts. “But it’s hard to sleep, what really happens to the ground?”
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