{"id":1001391,"date":"2026-04-06T07:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001391"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:38:43","slug":"salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-says-its-too-easy-to-make-ai-the-scapegoat-for-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/06\/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-says-its-too-easy-to-make-ai-the-scapegoat-for-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says \u2018it\u2019s too easy\u2019 to \u2018make AI\u2026 the scapegoat\u2019 for layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce CEO, Marc Benioff, while speaking on Matt Berman\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the wider layoffs debate, Benioff stated, \u201cI don\u2019t think most people still really understand what is going on.\u201d He added, \u201cAnd it\u2019s too easy, you know, to kind of basically make take the make AI and make it the scapegoat. And I think for some CEO\u2019s , it\u2019s the lazy way out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce CEO, Marc Benioff, while speaking on Matt Berman\u2019s 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, \u201cI don\u2019t think most people still really understand what is going on.\u201d He added, \u201cAnd it\u2019s too easy, you know, to kind of basically make take the make AI and make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}