Sundar Pichai Says Google Will Hire More Human Engineers Because of A.I.

At a time when Big Tech companies like Meta, Amazon and Microsoft slash thousands of engineering jobs and replace them with A.I., Google is looking to expand its engineering team, CEO Sundar Pichai said at Bloomberg Tech Summit in San Francisco yesterday (June 4). “I expect we will grow from our current engineering base even into next year. It allows us to do more with the opportunity space,” Pichai told Bloomberg’s Emily Chang during an onstage interview.

Pichai sees A.I. as an opportunity...