In an interview by Bloomberg in the city of San Francisco on Wednesday night, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai pushed back against concerns that AI could eventually make the company’s 180,000-protector workforce futile. Instead, Pichai emphasized the company’s commitment at least next year.
“I hope we will grow from our current engineering phase in the next year as well, as it allows us to do more,” Pichai said, AI is making engineers more productive by eliminating tedious tasks and enabling them to focus on more impressive work. Instead of changing the workers, he referred to AI as a “accelerator” that would run the new product development, making more employees’ demands.
The alphabet has staged several sorting in recent years, although so far, the cut in 2025 seems to be more targeted than the previous years. It allegedly participated in a low way 100 people Earlier this year in Google’s Cloud Division and recently, Hundreds of people In the unit of its platforms and equipment. In 2024 and 2023, the cut was far more severe, 12,000 people In 2023, he fell from the company and at least one more 1,000 employees Last year closed.
Further, Pichai pointed to the alphabet enlargement enterprises as a proof of innovation opportunities such as Wimo autonomous vehicles, quantum computing initiatives, and YouTube explosive development, which are constantly bubbled. He paid attention to the scale of YouTube in India alone, with 100 million channels and 15,000 channels more than one million customers.
At one point, Pichai said that trying to think much further “meaningless”. , Recent Comments The AI can destroy half of the white collar jobs of the entry level within five years, “I respect it. I think it is important to give voice to those concerns and debate them.”
As the interview was wrapped, Pichai was asked about the boundaries of AI, and is it possible that the world can never achieve artificial general intelligence, which means that AI which is smart as humans in everything. He stopped quickly before he responded. He said, “We have made further progress with the paths that we are working today, not only the set of those ideas, (but) with some new ideas, we are experimenting,” he said.
He said, “I am very optimistic to see a lot of progress. But you know,” he said, “You always have this technology declining where you can kill a temporary plateau. So can we currently be on a full route for AGI? I don’t think anyone can definitely say.”
