**AITA for Telling My Employees That "AI Will Set Them Free" While Simultaneously Laying Off 1,000 of Them to Buy More AI?**

AITA for telling my employees that “AI will set them free” while simultaneously laying off 1,000 of them to buy more AI?

Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s resident tech messiah, just dropped a new brainworm: he’s rebranding the company as an “AI-first, job-second” paradise. In a recent all-hands, he reportedly said, “AI will handle the boring stuff so you can focus on higher-level creativity” — right before announcing that the “higher-level creativity” jobs will be replaced by a subscription to his new AI grift, “EinsteinGPT Pro Max.”

TL;DR: CEO sells employees on “liberation,” then frees them from their paychecks. RTO mandate still in effect, though. Gotta keep those empty office lights on for the AI.

Verdict: YTA, Marc. But don’t worry, the AI will write your apology tweet for you.