Benioff: Enterprise software is shifting from information management to human labor
Marc Benioff · Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job · Nov 27, 2024 · at 1:52
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff outlines his core thesis on AI agents transforming software into an autonomous labor equivalent.
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“We are building software that just isn't helping companies manage and share information, which is kind of what we've been doing for the last three or four decades, but we're really going to provide software that is really a very much an equivalent of labor.”
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