Microsoft Employees Are Demanding The Company Cancel Its HoloLens Contract With The US Army
“We did not sign up to develop weapons,†says an employee letter to Microsoft executives published Friday.
Caroline O'Donovan BuzzFeed News Reporter
Last updated on February 22, 2019, at 8:36 p.m. ET
A group of Microsoft employees is circulating a letter among the company’s over 130,000-person staff demanding that executives cancel a $479 million contract with the US Army.
According to that contract, which first became public in November 2018, Microsoft’s augmented-reality HoloLens technology would be used to train soldiers for battle, which some employees feel is at odds with Microsoft’s mission.
“We are alarmed that Microsoft is working to provide weapons technology to the U.S. Military, helping one country's government ‘increase lethality’ using tools we built,†the employees wrote in copy of the letter shared with BuzzFeed News. “We did not sign up to develop weapons, and we demand a say in how our work is used.â€
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