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The AI Slowdown Debate Plunged Salesforce’s Party
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Decked out in purple and plaid, Gwen Stefani belted her 2002 single “Underneath It All” to a packed conference center in San Francisco on Tuesday morning—but she was the warm-up.
Key facts
- Onstage, 6-foot-5 Benioff towered over Anthropic’s CEO, vigorously shaking Amodei’s hand before asking for his latest assessment of AI progress
- Within minutes, he ordered up a graph of Salesforce’s annual revenue, which the company projects will top $46 billion in 2027, thanks in part to demand for its AI-powered products
- Decked out in purple and plaid, Gwen Stefani belted her 2002 single “Underneath It All” to a packed conference center in San Francisco on Tuesday morning—but she was the warm-up
- Let’s go!” into a checkered microphone before Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff strode into the spotlight
Summary
Benioff roamed the audience while delivering his Dreamforce sermon, followed by a teleoperated camera on wheels that beamed his face to screens hanging from the cavernous room’s ceiling. Between flashy software demonstrations of agents building dashboards, conference-goers watched Silicon Valley leaders debate whether the AI industry should keep barreling ahead or if the government needs to slow AI progress to prevent catastrophic risks stemming from the technology. Last week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and publicly warned that companies racing toward self-improving AI systems were “gambling with our lives.” By the weekend, other Anthropic employees were echoing his concerns, and CEO Dario Amodei was urging world leaders to help “pace the frontier” of AI development.