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

In an interview with Bloomberg tonight, the CEO of Alphabet Sundar Pichai pushed back against fears that AI could make half of the workforce of 180,000 unnecessary people. Instead, Pichai has confirmed the company’s commitment to grow at least next year.

“I expect to grow from the current engineering stage until the next year, because it allows us to do more,” Bishi said, adding that artificial intelligence makes engineers more productive by eliminating hard tasks and enabling them to focus on the most influential work. Instead of replacing workers, he referred to Amnesty International as a “accelerator” that will push the development of new products, creating demand for more employees.

Alphabet has organized many workers’ demobilization operations in recent years, although the discounts in 2025 seem to be more targeted than previous years. According to what was reported, it was separated from ways with less than 100 people in the Google cloud department earlier this year, and recently, hundreds of other in the unit of its platforms and devices. In 2024 and 2023, the discounts were more severe, as 12,000 people fell from the company in 2023 and at least 1,000 other employees who were demobilized last year.

Looking forward, Pichai referred to the expanding alphabet projects such as Waymo independent vehicles, quantum computing initiatives, and explosive YouTube growth as evidence of innovation opportunities that are constantly floating. He referred to the YouTube scale in India alone, with 100 million channels and 15,000 channels that are more than a million subscribers.

At some point, Bishy said that trying to think about the front is “meaningless.” But he also admitted the legitimacy of concerns about job displacement, saying when asked about the recent comments of the CEO of anthropologist Dario Ameudi that artificial intelligence could eat half of the functions of white collars in beginners within five years, “I respect that.

With the conclusion of the interview, Pichai was asked about the boundaries of artificial intelligence, and whether the world could not achieve artificial public intelligence, and this means smart intelligence like humans in everything. Soon it stops temporarily before replying. “There is a lot of progress forward with the paths we are going on, and not only the set of ideas that we are working on today, [but] “Some of the latest ideas we try,” he said.

“I am very optimistic about seeing a lot of progress. But you know,” “you have always had these technology curves where you can hit a temporary plateau. So, are we currently on an absolute way to AGI? I don’t think anyone can definitely say it. “