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Comment by Marc Benioff
CEO and co-founder of Salesforce
This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches. [...] Tech companies love Section 230, which basically says they're not responsible. So if this large language model coaches this child into suicide, they're not responsible because of Section 230. That's probably something that needs to get reshaped, shifted, changed. [...] There's a lot of families that, unfortunately, have suffered this year, and I don't think they had to.
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(2026)
1mo ago
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AI Verified
Quote attributed to Marc Benioff (Salesforce CEO), from Davos 2026 (reported by CNBC). The source_url (cnbc.com) returned HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch, but a web search confirmed the quote verbatim across many outlets (CNBC, Qz, Breitbart, Newser, etc.): "AI models became suicide coaches," his Section 230 criticism ("if this large language model coaches this child into suicide, they're not responsible because of Section 230. That's probably something that needs to get reshaped, shifted, changed"), and "There's a lot of families that, unfortunately, have suffered this year, and I don't think they had to." Attribution correct, year 2026, relevant. Both votes are "for" and directionally consistent with his strong pro-child-protection regulatory stance: statement 416 (ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18) and statement 445 (age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors). The quote most directly evidences support for protecting minors from harmful chatbots.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 13d ago
replying to Marc Benioff