Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the chief executive job “is not that complicated” and that AI is becoming “very, very helpful” for decision-making, in an interview with The Verge, when asked how close AI is to replacing him. Pichai argued that AI can make more rational choices over time, and that few decisions a CEO faces are truly consequential, with the priority being to decide and keep the company moving. He likened AI agents to earlier workplace shifts such as the arrival of spreadsheets. Pichai declined to say whether Google would pursue the kind of extreme restructuring seen elsewhere, such as Block's stated goal of 6,000 direct reports, noting that an operation at Google's scale still needs a CEO in charge. He also said roles at Google have shifted, with some engineers now directing teams of AI agents, and repeated that artificial general intelligence is “coming sooner rather than later.”
