{"id":34805,"date":"2025-10-10T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/google-clouds-ceo-says-he-doesnt-buy-into-the-hype-that-ai-is-going-to-automate-everyones-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:12:09","slug":"google-clouds-ceo-says-he-doesnt-buy-into-the-hype-that-ai-is-going-to-automate-everyones-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/google-clouds-ceo-says-he-doesnt-buy-into-the-hype-that-ai-is-going-to-automate-everyones-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud&#8217;s CEO says he doesn&#8217;t buy into the hype that AI is going to automate everyone&#8217;s jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68e9435f1c1f80efbec56046?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Thomas Kurian\"\/><figcaption>Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, weighed in on the AI hype.<\/p>\n<p>Candice Ward\/Getty Images for Google Cloud<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says he doesn&#039;t think AI will automate everyone&#039;s jobs.<\/li>\n<li>He says it will bridge the gap between what companies do now and what they couldn&#039;t do before.<\/li>\n<li>Google CEO Sundar Pichai has also said AI is making them more efficient without replacing workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says AI isn&#039;t here to replace you \u2014 it&#039;s here to help you keep up.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the tech newsletter Big Technology, Kurian dismissed the hype that AI will automate so much work that it will cost everyone their jobs. He said AI&#039;s role for the foreseeable future is to bridge the gap between what workers can do today and what they aspire to do in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think there is definitely a middle ground,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, when Googleunveiled its Customer Engagement Suite \u2014 a collection of AI-powered tools on Google Cloud designed to enhance customer service \u2014 Kurian said some users were initially apprehensive.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When we first introduced it, people asked, &#039;Does this mean we won&#039;t need customer service agents anymore?&#039;&quot; he told Big Technology. &quot;But the reality is, almost none of our clients have let anyone go.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He said the Customer Engagement Suite is helping customers get answers to questions they are otherwise unwilling to call a service agent to address.<\/p>\n<p>Kurian, a self-educated immigrant from India, worked as a consultant at McKinsey &amp; Company and then spent over two decades at Oracle before jumping to Google. He also has a twin brother named George, another big name in Silicon Valley, who is the CEO of data infrastructure company NetApp.<\/p>\n<p>Kurian is not the only member of Google&#039;s leadership team to saythat AI is an accelerator \u2014 not an automator.<\/p>\n<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on an episode of Lex Fridman&#039;s podcast in June that the company has seen a 10% boost in the productivity of its engineers. With that, he said, the company expects to hire more engineers in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The opportunity space of what we can do is expanding,&quot; he said. He added that he hopes AI will handle repetitive tasks, allowing engineers to spend more time on creative and fulfilling work.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, weighed in on the AI hype. Candice Ward\/Getty Images for Google Cloud Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says he doesn&#039;t think AI will automate everyone&#039;s jobs. He says it will bridge the gap between what companies do now and what they couldn&#039;t do before. 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