Marc Benioff, CEO and cofounder of San Francisco-based software giant Salesforce, recently ignited a firestorm after claiming that artificial intelligence does up to “50% of the work” at his cloud computing company.

Benioff’s comments on robot labor came after his company, San Francisco’s top employer, cut 1,000 positions this year. Salesforce is one of several companies across the tech industry that have had massive layoffs.