Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says AI won’t kill entry-level jobs. He’s hiring 1,000 new grads to prove it

The big question in corporate America today is to what extent AI will upend the entry-level white-collar workforce. Some have warned of a full obliteration of the entry-level workforce; others say those fears are overblown. And if the likes of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are right, we can see half of all those positions eliminated within a few years. 

However, there’s a growing number of business leaders and AI experts who say the AI jobpocalypse is nothing but a fantasy, and none other than Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff sits in that camp. While AI challenges the economics of software-as-a-service (SaaS) firms like Salesforce—whose stock price is down over 31% from a year ago as of Monday morning—in a recent post on X, the billionaire said his company is hiring 1,000 new grads and interns to build its AI systems.

“We’re hiring 1,000 new grads & interns right now to ride the AI exponential,” the post read. “You are right they said AI would kill entry-level jobs. Meanwhile these grads and interns are building it—powering Agentforce & Headless360 at Salesforce,” he said of the company’s agentic AI platforms.

The post was a reaction to Trump administration AI and crypto czar David Sacks’ post noting a “narrative violation” about the impact of...