Marc Benioff: AI must not become “social media 2.0”

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At Dreamforce, Benioff urges industry accountability after launching Claudeforce, warns against repeating social media harms, cites the Hugging Face accident and calls on executives to take absolute responsibility.

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At Dreamforce, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff warned, "We cannot let artificial intelligence (AI) be social media 2.0," after unveiling Claudeforce with Anthropic and sharing the stage with Jensen Huang and other frontier-AI figures. He invoked the Hugging Face accident as an example of what not to repeat, and urged executives to take absolute responsibility for their systems. That message matters because it pushes enterprise customers and platform vendors toward stricter guardrails, and it puts Nvidia, whose GPUs and platforms power much of the AI stack, squarely in the policy and demand spotlight.