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Decked out in<\/span> purple and plaid, Gwen Stefani<\/a> belted her 2002 single \u201cUnderneath It All\u201d to a packed conference center in San Francisco on Tuesday morning\u2014but she was just the warm-up. At the end of her performance, Stefani shouted \u201cDreamforce! Let\u2019s go\u201d into a checkered microphone before Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff<\/a> strode into the spotlight. Dreamforce is billed as the world\u2019s largest enterprise software conference, but feels more like attending a megachurch\u2014especially this year.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s ceiling. Within minutes, he ordered up a graph of Salesforce\u2019s annual revenue, which the company projects will top $46 billion<\/a> in 2027, thanks in part to demand for its AI-powered products. The audience applauded. But hanging over the whole event was a dark question: Is artificial intelligence really worth risking all our lives for?<\/p>\n

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<\/a> to prevent catastrophic risks stemming from the technology.<\/p>\n

Last week, AI researcher Jacob Coxon<\/a> resigned from Anthropic and publicly warned that companies racing toward self-improving AI systems were \u201cgambling with our lives.\u201d By the weekend, other Anthropic employees were echoing his concerns, and CEO Dario Amodei was urging world leaders<\/a> to help \u201cpace the frontier\u201d of AI development. Other AI CEOs then began endorsing the idea, including Amodei\u2019s greatest rival, OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman.<\/p>\n

But not everyone is on board with the idea. David Sacks, a White House AI adviser, brushed off<\/a> Amodei\u2019s suggestions and fears of AI doom as \u201cjust another bid for regulatory capture.\u201d President Trump went further this week, calling fears about existential AI risk \u201ca hoax<\/a>.\u201d Despite the challenging political environment, Congress is trying to capitalize on the moment and push ahead with legislation to regulate the AI industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Onstage, 6-foot-5 Benioff towered over Anthropic\u2019s CEO, vigorously shaking Amodei\u2019s hand just before asking for his latest assessment of AI progress. While this is undoubtedly Benioff\u2019s show, Anthropic has become a critical partner helping usher Salesforce into the AI era.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s say you’re running a car company and another car company, not yours, they have some kind of safety incident,\u201d Amodei said, making a not-so-subtle reference to OpenAI\u2019s Hugging Face incident<\/a>. \u201cObviously, it’s very tempting to attack your competitor,\u201d Amodei explained, but the more responsible move is to \u201corganize the rest of the industry and say, what can we do to set standards for everyone?\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Anthropic CEO was careful to note that pacing the frontier doesn\u2019t mean \u201cfreezing the technology in place,\u201d and of course, he took a moment to plug Claude\u2019s integration with Salesforce.<\/p>\n

Moments after Amodei exited, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang<\/a> appeared and began downplaying the concerns Anthropic has raised. AI safety effectively amounts to an \u201cengineering problem,\u201d Huang argued, and the companies building AI can simply police themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don’t need any new laws, we don’t need any new regulation,\u201d Huang told Dreamforce attendees. \u201cYou run as fast as you can, but if you feel that at any given point in time, the company is out of control or the products are not going to be safe, you take a pause.\u201d<\/p>\n

The debate feels a bit heavy for Dreamforce, but then again, maybe this is the perfect venue for it. As tech executives pitched their various enterprise AI tools, I slipped out of the room, passing the plush mascots and vaguely Hawaiian decorations, to take a call from Sayash Kapoor, an incoming computer science professor at Berkeley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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