- The CEO of alphabet says that AI will not lead to job cuts
- Sundar Pichai thinks that the alphabet could even hire more workers
- Many large technological companies have announced job cuts in recent years
The CEO of the mother company of Google, alphabet, retaliated to fears that the growing adoption of AI will result in job cuts.
Speaking in an interview with BloombergSundar Pichai said that AI could in fact help the alphabet develop their workforce, rather than leading to redundancies and losses.
“I expect us to grow from our current engineering phase, even next year, because it allows us to do more,” said Pichai, noting that AI could be “an accelerator” that leads to the development of new products, which in turn needs more human workers.
Professional concerns of AI
Alphabet has carried out several large -scale layoffs in recent years, with 12,000 reduced workers in January 2023, and around a thousand drop in 2024, with Google also announcing several hundred additional cuts in 2025.
However, many of the largest technological companies in the world have also been forced to make similar cuts, such as Microsoft, which recently announced that 7,000 roles would have.
Pichai hoped that the impact that AI will have on alphabet workers, noting that technology could release them from repetitive or dull administration to tackle more creative tasks.
He recognized the concerns concerning AI occupying human jobs and addressed the recent comments of the anthropogenic CEO Dario Amodei suggesting that AI could delete half of the onset white collar jobs in the five years saying: “I respect this … I think it is important to express these concerns and debate them.”
“There is a lot of progress before with the paths on which we are, not only all the ideas on which we work today, [but] Some of the most recent ideas we experience, ”added Pichai.
“I am very optimistic to see a lot of progress – but you have always had these technological curves where you can hit a temporary plateau. So, are we currently on an absolute path towards AG? I do not think that anyone can say with certainty.”
