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

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced the company is hiring 1,000 new graduates and interns to build AI systems, rejecting the narrative that AI eliminates entry-level jobs. He cited recent unemployment data for 20-24 year-olds at 5.6% (down from 9.2% in September) and pointed to these hires building Agentforce and Headless360 platforms. The announcement responds to warnings from Anthropic's Dario Amodei about potential large-scale job displacement.