Marc Benioff
Role at the time: Chief executive of Salesforce hosting and interviewing at his company's conference
Statement summary
Benioff drew a warning from social media and called on executives to hold themselves responsible for building safe technology, while saying companies should set the pace of development.
“I hope that we will take those lessons and say that social media is probably just the warm-up for AI. … Let’s hold ourselves responsible as an industry and as executives to make sure that our technology is safe and does the right thing.”
Politico report datelined San Francisco, timestamped 5:27 PM ET on September 15, 2026 and updated at 7:08 PM. Covers the Dreamforce megaconference hosted by Marc Benioff, at which Huang, Amodei and Altman each spoke.
Why we used this label
Benioff says companies must be held responsible and should follow existing laws, but places the pace of development with companies rather than government. He neither endorses nor rejects new federal safeguards, so the label is mixed.