Pro-Palestine Protester Removed from UN AI Summit Over Amazon's Project Nimbus Complicity
A pro-Palestine protester was violently removed from the UN's AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva after disrupting a presentation by a senior Amazon executive. The protest is part of the BDS movement's campaign against Big Tech's complicity in Israel's war on Gaza, specifically targeting Amazon and Google's $1.2 billion Project Nimbus contract, which provides cloud services to Israel. The incident highlights tensions between the UN's tech partnerships and human rights concerns.
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Is this the future you want to see? Where AI executives pretend like they have the answers, that they are doing good, and you're giving them a stage?
Drop Project Nimbus!
Protester of Amazon Genocide Complicity Put in Chokehold at 'AI for Good' Summit
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