Overview

• On the 20VC podcast, Benioff called talk of artificial general intelligence “a lot of hypnosis” and said he is “extremely suspect” of anyone using the initials.
• He praised large language models as state of the art yet stressed they are not persons, not intelligent, and not conscious.
• He said AGI is not the current state of technology, while allowing that it could materialize one day.
• He mocked the title “AGI head” in response to an Amazon AGI Labs claim that fewer than 1,000 people could meaningfully build a new frontier model.
• Coverage noted the tension with Salesforce’s heavy AI commercialization, including agent products and claims that AI now does about half of the company’s work, as peers like Sam Altman say GPT-5 is not AGI because it cannot learn continuously.