By Joe Gallop
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 00:45:00
Although the AI boom shows no signs of slowing, as Nvidia’s stellar results show this week, Google boss Sundar Pichai has sounded the alarm over fears of the risk of a tech-driven bubble.
Alphabet Inc.’s CEO told the BBC that while enthusiasm for AI is “very rational,” there are unmistakable elements of “irrationality” creeping into the sector.
Pichai compared the current surge in AI investment to the internet boom of the late 1990s, when valuations soared before the dot-com bubble burst.
“We can look back at the Internet now. There was clearly a lot of overinvestment,” he said, adding that none of us would question how profound the Internet was. “I assume it will be the same with AI.”
Pichai made it clear that no company, including Google, would be immune from the consequences of a turnaround.
Pichai even suggested that AI could one day take over its own role as CEO.
“I think what a CEO does is perhaps one of the easier tasks for AI…
