By Katherine Li
Publication Date: 2026-06-06 08:51:00
As workers worry that AI could make their jobs obsolete, Google cofounder Sergey Brin is offering a different view.
Speaking during an unscripted fireside chat at Google DeepMind Build Day at AGI House, Brin pointed to games like Go and said that human achievement has continued to advance after computers surpassed people in those domains.
“And by the way, since AlphaGo, the game of Go has advanced a lot,” said Brin. “The players that played against it, Lee Sedol, became vastly better after, and Ke Jie after he played AlphaGo also. It has pushed the state of the art.”
Sedol was one of the world’s top Go players and a multiple-time international champion when he won one of five games against AlphaGo, powered by Google DeepMind, in March 2016. Jie was the world’s No. 1-ranked Go player when he faced AlphaGo in 2017 and lost all three games.
Go is a two-player board game that originated in China, usually played by placing black and white stones on…
