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The late Stephen Hawking warned against an AI-centered future for humanity, and with movies like Terminator and The Minority Report, we can understand that caution. That said, other movies like WALL-E and Big Hero 6 present much more optimistic scenarios that we might see. Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi sat down with Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff at Dreamforce 2024, who made the point that, "technology is not good or bad, it's what you do with it. It's our job to guide the technology and set the values." Salesforce has exemplified that be building The Einstein Trust Layer as an active step toward AI safety, security, and responsibility.
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Is your biggest fear with AI still like Terminators and robots? Is that given how fast things have been moving? I mean
Well, I saw some very scary movies if that's what you're asking by some of our employees. I mean, one of our employees wrote War Games and also wrote Minority Report. They're scary movies about the future.
Well, there's a slide you had on the keynote, the next wave robots. Now you had wave four robots, wave five what augmented AGI. Was it? I think that was it.
Well, there are robots coming and there is, you know, incredible new companies that are building robot operating systems. I just invested in one of them through Time Ventures. There's all kinds of things happening in the future. The future doesn't equal the present. We know that. So things are going to happen, but look at technology is not good or bad. It's what you do with it. And it's our job to guide the technology and set the values and create the trust like hey, I think we are the first company to ever say you need a trust layer. And we built a trust layer into our core AI platform.
First company I ever heard talk about it.
And we built that last year. That's important for the future of our customers. We know that. And that'll be true also with robots and everybody else. So yes, and by the way, our platform will drive those robots. That will be a very key part of it.
