Today’s CEOs are the last to manage all-human workforces, says Marc Benioff
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/business/davos-marc-benioff-salesforce-ai-prediction-intl/index.html
Today’s CEOs are the last to manage all-human workforces, says Marc Benioff
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/business/davos-marc-benioff-salesforce-ai-prediction-intl/index.html
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Submission statement: Today’s chief executives are the last generation to manage all-human workforces as companies increasingly adopt artificial intelligence, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Thursday.
“From this point forward… we will be managing not only human workers but also digital workers,” he said on a panel at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Benioff provided a recent example from his own business.
He said Salesforce’s software had been used to help run the annual conference in Davos for more than a decade. But this year, for the first time, the San Francisco-based tech giant incorporated an “AI agent” into its app for Davos attendees to help them decide which panels to attend.
This all sounds so goofy as someone who has made a good faith effort to integrate these tools into my work. Anything fact based is awful for these tools – where hallucinations kill it.
Heat treating steel? Here’s the wrong data.
Calculating stresses in a part? Here’s the wrong formula for this use.
Selecting the best alloy to use? Why not base the decision on this made up data.
To date these things are glorified chat bots, and are only helpful writing generic emails or similar tasks.
If I was booking a conference and a chatbot asked “can I help you select your itinerary” I would laugh and close that window so damn fast
Or maybe its time people stop working for over-paid *human* leadership?
These CEOs are hella overconfident. Who says AI won’t take *their* jobs?
Benioff has been super vocal about a few things related to AI.
1. AI will fundamentally change everyone’s life in the next few months
2. Salesforce has made monumental gains with its AI products
3. Everyone else’s AI is complete shit
This is all a marketing ploy filled with massive amounts of hopium, and everyone would do well to remember Benioff has a major conflict of interest when he makes these statements.
“Today’s companies are the last to manage all-human executives”
FTFY
Why should we depend on computers and ai to do everything for us, I fundamentally reject this.
Today’s CEO’s are easier to replace with AI than any other part of the workforce.
In other words companies manage automation in their production flow. So revolutionary and novel.
We’re already there for over 50 years.
Computer used to be a job title.
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
Ceos don’t “manage” any workforces anyway. They just skim off the top and help give customers as cheap of a product as possible.
Smart people like to overestimate.
Machnines need operators !
Smart people need to operate AI !
The ones who can actually see errors in AI work.
I think it would be easier to replace the C suite with an AI.
Not sure why anyone listens to this guy; we tried to use Salesforce Einstein and it was a f/ joke. We wasted months on it.
Aren’t CEO’s the ones that a company would have the most to gain by replacing with AI?
I’ve never met a CEO that managed their workforce. Most CEO’s haven’t the faintest idea what their staff are doing or how to do it.
CEO is probably the easiest job to automate out, I can’t wait for Boards to realize they don’t need to waste the tens of millions on them
The more I hear from Marc Benioff, the more I think Marc Benioff is a tool.
I hope AI likes to buy their products, because if this is true, then today’s consumers are the last to have money to buy things from these companies.
Considering that Silicon Valley has now
Turned the internet into a garbage heap of advertisements and data mining of your personal date. What makes anyone believe that AI can functionally work. Everyone believing this bullshit is high.
Todays CEOs are the ultimate form of that one person who got promoted way above where they should have been
and this generation of workers are the last to deal with CEOs bullshit. thank fuck for that.
LMFAO these guys have no fucking idea at all what they are talking about. If AI did anything it was to expose how clueless CEOs are.
So… who buys the products once we don’t have an all human workforce?
Mister Hot Air himself, who needed a Co-CEO because he’s more inept and lazy than any current CEO of Fortune 100 companies like Salesforce. Aside from acquisitions that company has done absolutely nothing unique since the early 00’s and he thinks he’s got a seat or say in anything relevant? Oh okay Uncle Marc, your previous workforce says hi, good to see some things never change.
> Today’s CEO’s are the last ~~to manage all-human workerforces~~
FTFY
Such a horrible half-cocked tech bro mentality that needs to be picked apart every time a local junior exec half-reads a magazine article and schedules a department meeting to waste everyone’s time. Bottom line, If you consider your software to be your “workforce”, you’re a goofball. Tools either increase efficiency of an existing workforce or reduce its workload. You don’t pay a hammer a salary or hold regular performance reviews.
Huge eye roll.
Really have to stop asking the guys who sell AI products about the future of AI.
AI robots will be the extension of the CEO, working alingside the employees, the eyes and ears. Youll hear people saying the CEO is everywhere.
It’s not like they’ve treated us like human beings for a long long time.
Get job at data center, sabotage data center, profit
Wow, something recommended things to watch based on their title or history. Netflix level of innovation.
The dream of these CEOs is to replace their employees with AI. So, now those people don’t have jobs and can’t afford the products sold by these companies. Who do they think buys and uses their products? If every corporation replaced people with AI, then nobody would have a decent paying job so they can buy the things they sell.
Fine, so stop with the assumption that labor is necessary for material comfort. Obviously it requires some collective governing action to ensure that the resources generated by society are distributed in a way that doesn’t concentrate all of the wealth in the hands of a few jackasses. At some point even the Keynesian point will have to enter the equation. If nobody has any resources but said jackasses, who’s going to buy their products?
This is assuming that AI isn’t a bunch of tech guru hype that will simply continue to enshittify everything.
What if we just didn’t have CEOs in the future? Maybe just a group of people trying to solve problems and get reasonably compensated for it?
I wonder what the other LLM hyped dickheads have to lie to top it off
I’m getting really uncomfortable reading comments that pivots from what the perception of the impact that AI will generate more and more no one even flinching at uncertainty.
CEO’s will be the easiest to replace with AI. They just haven’t realised this yet. No more million $ salaries for companies to pay.
They are salivating at the thought of decimating payroll. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the labor market.