Benioff: Social Media Was Just the Warm-Up, AI Executives Must Be Held Accountable
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-09-16
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff argued at Dreamforce that social media was merely the warm-up act for AI, and the industry should learn from its failures.
- Social media's mistake: companies and executives weren't held accountable early enough for harms their products caused, including harm to children
- AI companies know more about what happens inside their models and organizations than outsiders do, so they should make their own calls on when to slow down or speed up
- But that freedom must come with accountability: the companies and executives building AI should answer for the technology and its safety
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