Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai said that cuts at Google affect teams globally, including recruiting, some corporate functions as well as some engineering and products teams.
“If you’re a lawyer, if you’re an accountant, if you’re a financial planner, you might want to look to your laurels because there may be a program coming, an AI-generated program that’s going to be able to do jobs just like yours,” Herman said.
Waze co-founder Uri Levine says that artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is very likely going to have “more value than damage.”
Herman said that the current layoffs are a response to “chances of a coming recession.” And also, there is speculation that the coming AI revolution will require fewer workers in tech.
“In fact, the machines are, you know, a little bit more reliable. They’re happy to work on weekends, [and] a whole range of other things that are going to be very tough for America’s white-collar workforce,” Herman added.
