🚨BREAKING🚨: No Azure for Apartheid SHUTS DOWN Microsoft-sponsored AI Ethics event! Earlier today, we shut down the Microsoft-sponsored conference "ETHICS AND TECH CONFERENCE 2025: GOVERNING AI" at Seattle University using a series of non-stop disruptions!

Our disruptions successfully prevented Microsoft representatives from speaking and forced them to leave the conference!

First, a protester disrupted Mike Jackson, a leader in Microsoft's office of Responsible AI, from giving his presentation, calling out the hypocrisy of highlighting Microsoft's ethics while Microsoft is actively powering the genocide in Gaza.

Protesters then took over the stage, chanting, waving Palestinian flags, unfurling banners reading "IRRESPONSIBLE AI FOR GENOCIDE" and "ISRAEL OFF AZURE", and SHUTTING DOWN Microsoft's keynote as attendees were forced out of the auditorium.

We refused to relent and followed the crowd outside, delivering a speech that reiterated Microsoft's role as the technological backbone of Israel's apartheid and genocide.

Once our protestors were escorted out of the atrium, they continued to rally outside the building for another hour. At the same time, we launched a sound disruption inside the atrium by releasing a birdie noisemaker attached to helium balloons which echoed throughout the venue.

In addition, we successfully prevented Teresa Hutson, leader of Microsoft's Trusted Technology Group at Microsoft, from speaking at the conference, forcing her to leave the venue after creating a significant disruption.

At the end, a protester disrupted SeattleU's president to call out that while the university is hosting an event to whitewash Microsoft's role in the genocide, Microsoft technology played an active role in destroying all the universities in Gaza.

Make no mistake: Today's Microsoft-sponsored ""AI ethics"" conference is nothing but a failed attempt by Microsoft to whitewash its undeniable role in Israel's genocide in Gaza. There's no ethical way to do business with an entity committing genocide on a daily basis!

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE! IOF OFF AZURE! NO TECH WEAPONS FOR GENOCIDE! DIGITAL ARMS EMBARGO NOW!