Marc Benioff Tells AI Companies to Regulate Themselves or Face Lawsuits
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In 2018, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that Facebook is the new cigarette, 8 years later he has similar warning for ChatGPT and Claude-makers; says: Do not ...
Tech News News: Eight years after Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called Facebook “the new cigarettes”, he is raising a similar concern about the fast-growing AI industry.
Marc Benioff Tells AI Companies to Regulate Themselves or Face Lawsuits
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told Fortune at Dreamforce that AI companies should regulate themselves or face lawsuits under existing product liability law, comparing their accountability to car manufacturers. His stance breaks from Nvidia's Jensen Huang and JD Vance, who both argue against new AI oversight, while Anthropic's Dario Amodei pushes the opposite direction.
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, asked artificial intelligence companies to take responsibility for the damage they may cause and warned that they would otherwise face lawsuits. His statements were made during Dreamforce 2026, where leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Meta showed divergent positions on the speed and security of AI development.
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