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Fortune
Emma Burleigh

As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (Credit: Jeenah Moon—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Tech leaders are split on whether AI will bring about a jobs Armageddon or a utopia of zero work and universal high income. Now, Google CEO Sundar Pichai is adding to the debate. And in his eyes, everyone’s job could be impacted by the new tech—even his own. People will just have to adapt accordingly. 

“AI is the most profound technology humanity is ever working on, and it has potential for extraordinary benefits, and we will have to work through societal disruption,” Pichai told the BBC in a recent interview.

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