As one of San Francisco’s more outspoken tech leaders, Marc Benioff is no stranger to media firestorms, provoked by his unflinching stances on homelessness or surprise cheerleading for President Donald Trump.
The Salesforce CEO ignited a new controversy on Thursday, when he said during an episode of “The Circuit with Emily Chang” that artificial intelligence does “30 to 50% of the work” at his cloud computing company.
Long a happy warrior for AI, Benioff tried to put a positive spin on its encroachment into his company’s workforce culture. With bots taking over labor once performed by humans, he said, the human employees can “move on to do higher value work.”…