Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plans | TechCrunch

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai dismisses AI job fears, emphasizes expansion plans | TechCrunch

In a Bloomberg interview Wednesday night in downtown San Francisco, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai pushed back against concerns that AI could eventually make half the company’s 180,000-person workforce redundant. Instead, Pichai stressed the company’s commitment to growth through at least next year.

“I expect we will grow from our current engineering phase even into next year, because it allows us to do more,” Pichai said, adding that AI is making engineers more productive by…

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