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Marc Benioff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
166 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

80,000 employees.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

We'll do more than $41 billion in revenue this year.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

Presidents are constantly changing.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

but our core values are not changing.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

And so, we're just anchored down into our core values and then we just speak to that and what we're trying to achieve as a business to reflect back into our customers and our communities what those values are.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

As you know, in San Francisco, where we are the largest tech company, there have been a lot of challenges and so,

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

Yeah, I always have anxiety about safety for our employees and I think that that anxiety just manifests into how can we create a greater San Francisco?

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

And so I'm excited to be working with everyone from Mayor Lurie to President Trump to do that.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

Well, I think we should talk about that we are dealing with a new kind of very unwieldy technology, which, left by itself, these large language models, they can do all kinds of terrible things.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

I mean, they can do a lot of great things, too.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

You've used them.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

They can summarize things, and you can ask them queries, and you can get information.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

But unfortunately, we saw this year

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

This horrible example, or this company, Character AI specifically, started to find that their product was turning into a suicide coach for their customers.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

And one of the most horrific things I've ever seen in technology is these children died.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

And it was completely unnecessary.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

And I think it needs to be a wake-up call that...

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

we're letting all of this AI technology out fully unregulated.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

And by the way, you remember, that's true what we did with social media as well.

Bloomberg Talks
Marc Benioff Talks AI Regulation

And you probably remember what I said in 2018 here, which was social media was becoming the same kind of very dangerous technology.