In a Bloomberg interview on Wednesday night in downtown San Francisco, the CEO of Alphabet, Losco Pichai, rejected the concerns that AI could finally make half of the workforce of 180,000 people of the company redundant. Instead, Pichai emphasized the company’s commitment to growth at least next year.
“I hope we grow from our current engineering phase even until next year, because it allows us to do more,” said Pichai, adding that AI is making engineers more productive by eliminating tedious tasks and allowing them to focus on a more shocking job. Instead of replacing workers, he referred to AI as “an accelerator” that will boost the development of new products, thus creating the demand for more employees.
Alphabet has organized numerous dismissals in recent years, although so far, cuts in 2025 seem to be more directed than in previous years. According to reports, he separated with less than 100 people in the Google cloud division earlier this year and, more recently, more hundreds in your platform and device unit. In 2024 and 2023, the cuts were much more severe, with 12,000 people He fell from the company in 2023 and at least another 1,000 employees dismissed last year.
Looking towards the future, Pichai pointed out Alphabet’s expansion companies such as Waymo’s autonomous vehicles, quantum computing initiatives and explosive growth of YouTube as evidence of innovation opportunities that continually bubble. He pointed out only the YouTube scale in India, with 100 million channels and 15,000 channels that with more than 1 million subscribers.
At one point, Pichai said that trying to think that too far is “useless.” But he also recognized the legitimacy of fears about labor displacement. When asked about the anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Recent comments That AI could erode half of the white -collar input level work in five years, said: “I respect that … I think it is important to express those concerns and discuss them.”
As the interview concluded, Pichai was asked about the limits of AI, and if it is possible that the world never reaches artificial general intelligence, which means as intelligent as humans in everything. He stopped quickly before responding. “There are many advances ahead with the paths in which we are, not only the set of ideas we are working on today, [but] Some of the newest ideas we are experiencing, ”he said.
“I am very optimistic to see a lot of progress. But you know,” he added, “you have always had these technological curves where you can reach a temporary plateau. So are we currently on an absolute path to AGI? I don’t think anyone can say with certainty.”
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