Microsoft says it will keep working with the military despite employee revolt

Microsoft plans to continue to provide its technology to the U.S. military, despite worries among the software maker's own employees that advances in the field of artificial intelligence could empower weapons to act autonomously and kill people. The company laid out its reasoning Friday in a blog post by Brad Smith, Microsoft's president. He wrote that he and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addressed employee concerns about the issue in a meeting Thursday, and conceded not all the workers were satisfied. In a letter published on blogging site Medium, the employees wrote that they joined Microsoft with'the expectation that the technologies we build will not cause harm or human suffering.' Microsoft has worked with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on a'longstanding and reliable basis' for four decades.