Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says ‘it’s too easy’ to ‘make AI… the scapegoat’ for layoffs

Salesforce CEO, Marc Benioff, while speaking on Matt Berman’s show The Future Live said that it is too simplistic to blame artificial intelligence for the wave of layoffs seen across parts of the tech industry. In an interview, Benioff stated that the companies are cutting jobs for different reasons and cautioned that AI is sometimes being used as a convenient explanation.

Speaking about the wider layoffs debate, Benioff stated, “I don’t think most people still really understand what is going on.” He added, “And it’s too easy, you know, to kind of basically make take the make AI and make it the scapegoat. And I think for some CEO’s , it’s the lazy way out.”