Microsoft employees have published an open letter calling for the company to abandon its bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) military cloud computing contract. The letter, signed by more than 100 employees, says that JEDI is a "strategic and critical contract" with significant implications for national security. the contract could breach the company’s “AI principles”. Since those capabilities could be used to support combat operations, employees at some companies have become concerned the JEDI winner would essentially become components of the U.S. war machine. The letter states that staff joined Mircrosoft in “the expectation that the technologies we build will not cause harm or human suffering.” The statement also accuses executives at the firm of betraying Microsoft’s own AI principles.
Microsoft employees have published an open letter calling for the company to abandon its bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) military cloud computing contract. The letter, signed by more than 100 employees, says that JEDI is a "strategic and critical contract" with significant implications for national security. the contract could breach the company’s “AI principles”. The letter states that staff joined Mircrosoft in “the expectation that the technologies we build will not cause harm or human suffering.” The statement also accuses executives at the firm of betraying Microsoft’s own AI principles.