- Alphabet CEO says AI will not lead to job cuts
- Sundar Pichai believes the alphabet could even hire more workers
- Many big tech companies have announced job cuts in recent years
CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet has turned back to fear of growing AI adoption will lead to job cuts.
Talk in an interview with BloombergSundar Pichai said that AI could actually help the alphabet grow its workforce instead of leading to redundancies and losses.
“I expect that we will grow from our current engineering phase, even into next year, because it allows us to do more,” Pichai said, noting that AI could be “an accelerator” that drives the development of new product, which in turn needs more human workers.
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Alphabet has made several major redundancies in recent years, with 12,000 workers cut in January 2023, and about a thousand slips in 2024, with Google also announced hundreds of more cuts in 2025.
However, many of the largest technology companies in the world have also been forced to make similar cuts, such as Microsoft, which recently announced that 7,000 roles would go.
Pichai was hopeful about the influence AI wants to have on Alphabet’s workers, noting that technology could free them from repeated or boring admin work to tackle more creative tasks.
He acknowledged concern that AI took human jobs, and treated the recent comments from anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who suggested that AI could remove half of Entry-Level White Claimer within five years by saying, “I respect it … I think it is important to express these concerns and discuss them.”
“There is a lot of forward progress in the future with the paths we are on, not only the set of ideas we are working on today, [but] Some of the newer ideas we are experimenting with, ”added Pichai.
“I’m very optimistic about seeing a lot of progress – but you’ve always had these technology curves where you might hit a temporary plateau. Then we’re currently on an absolute way to AGI? I don’t think anyone can say with certainty.”
