#11 Google CEO, Sundar Pichai: AI Will Cause Societal Disruptions

谷歌CEO,桑达尔·皮查伊:人工智能将引发社会动荡

Business Matters

2025-11-18

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Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and Alphabet, acknowledges that no company is immune from the risks of an AI investment bubble, including Google itself, and warns that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence will lead to significant societal disruptions. Speaking to BBC Economics Editor Faisal Islam he explains that, despite the company’s scale and diversified approach, overinvestment in artificial intelligence could still require Google to navigate challenging phases, just as any other business would. This admission comes as Google’s annual AI infrastructure spending surpasses $90 billion, reflecting the extraordinary scale and pace of global investment in the sector. The interview explores the implications of this rapid growth, with Pichai highlighting the unprecedented demand for energy and the need for new sources of power to support AI development. He outlines Google’s efforts to invest in renewables, nuclear, and geothermal energy, and describes the company’s commitment to achieving 95% carbon-free operations in the UK by 2026. Pichai notes that the speed of AI expansion is testing the limits of existing sustainability targets, but maintains that technological progress can support both economic and environmental objectives. He also addresses the evolution of copyright frameworks, and the responsibilities of technology companies. He discusses the UK’s ambition to become an AI superpower, the importance of scaling energy infrastructure, and the need for responsible development to ensure that the benefits of AI are widely shared. 00:20 Felicity and Faisal set out interview 02:00 Sundar Pichai joins the interview 03:30 Google now spending 90 billion dollars annually on AI 04:05 Is AI a Bubble? 05:51 Google’s AI strategy 07:03 The power and potential of AI agents 08:34 Automation, jobs, and societal Impact 11:07 Advice for the next generation 11:50 AI accuracy, and truth 14:22 Energy demands & climate impact 16:48 Google’s UK investments 18:25 Copyright issues 22:26 Immigration, talent, and innovation 23:12 AI as Open Source 25:31 Quantum computing & future technologies
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  • bbt sounds music radio podcasts Hello, welcome to Big Boss Interview.

  • I'm Felicity Hanna and I'm joined today by the BBC Economics Editor, Faisal Islam.

  • Faisal, hello.

  • What's a pleasure to be on?

  • Well, a very good pleasure to have you.

  • Now, we've had some enormous bosses on this podcast since we launched.

  • They don't really come much bigger than the boss you've been speaking to, Google CEO Sandar Pachai.

  • And you actually went out to see him in San Francisco.

  • I did.

  • I was invited over to the Googleplex to have quite a lengthy conversation with Mr Pichai,

  • a CEO of Google, and officially it's Alphabet, the holding company.

  • And clearly the main issue was the extraordinary build out of artificial intelligence,

  • booming beyond all expectation, I think.

  • It is an extraordinary time to have this type of interview,

  • not just the trillions of dollars of investment going in physically,

  • into data centers,

  • into power and energy needs to be the sort of horsepower behind those billions of queries and searches that are coming through.

  • Obviously,

  • there are very real questions about how sustainable all of this is sustainable financially in terms of fears about a bubble sustainable in terms of energy sustainable in terms of the climate politically and socially in terms of jobs and they gave us a lot of time to explore all of these issues i've not really heard him talk in quite such depth across such an array of issues and also show us so much of what's going on inside Google at DeepMind,

  • at their quantum computer, and with Gemini, their new AI sort of consumer offering.