As of: 2026-10-12 07:22 CEST.
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Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/person/aaron-levie/

# Aaron Levie

Co-founder and CEO, Box (as of 2026-10-11; source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Levie).

Box CEO and widely followed commentator on enterprise AI agents; his Oct 2026 defence of Anthropic's cruelty rule drew Elon Musk's endorsement.

## Accounts

- X: https://x.com/levie
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Levie

## In the news (2 events, newest first)

- 2026-10-10: [Nadella's X Article 'Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-10-nadella-models-as-insider-risks/), Policy & safety. On Oct 10, 2026 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published an X Article arguing that today's "Super Intelligence systems" are nested black boxes that cannot be trusted on a provider's word.
- 2026-10-08: [Anthropic usage policy bans abuse of Claude, rewrites election and surveillance rules](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-08-anthropic-2026-usage-policy-update/), Policy & safety. On October 8, 2026 Anthropic published a rewrite of its Usage Policy, effective November 12, 2026.

## Posts (3)

- 2026-10-09: [Elon Musk backs Anthropic's ban on cruelty to Claude: 'Cruelty to something that believes it is experiencing pain is not ok'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-09-elonmusk-cruelty-not-ok/), Elon Musk (@elonmusk), X. The most-viewed reaction (~676k views by Oct 11) to Anthropic's new Usage Policy rule against abusing Claude came from the head of rival lab SpaceXAI, who supported it.
- 2026-10-09: [Aaron Levie on Anthropic's cruelty rule: 'an easy Pascal's wager for AI. Just be nice to the AI'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-09-levie-be-nice-to-the-ai/), Aaron Levie (@levie), X. Box CEO's argument for the rule on training-data grounds rather than consciousness (~351k views); Elon Musk's endorsement of the policy was a reply to it.
- 2026-09-18: [Aaron Levie: Box + Jev demo for instant enterprise decisions](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-levie-2101007708044574906/), Aaron Levie (@levie), X. Box CEO shows an enterprise workflow on Jev (116k views).

Profile checked 2026-10-11.