Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai on Leadership, AI, and Big Tech

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The use of artificial intelligence and specifically generative AI is growing rapidly, and tech giants like Google have an important role to play in how that technology gets adopted and developed. Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Google as well as its parent company Alphabet, which he's led as an AI-first company for several years. He speaks with HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius about shaping Google's AI strategy, putting safeguards in place, and how work and leadership will change as AI advances.

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0:30.0	Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:41.0	I'm Adi Ignatius.
0:50.0	If you're like me, you're spending a lot of time these days talking about AI,
0:54.0	specifically generative AI.
0:56.0	Products like Chat GPT that have the potential to remake how we do business on almost every level.
1:03.0	Will this technology make us more productive?
1:05.0	Will it eliminate huge categories of jobs?
1:08.0	Will it create new ethical challenges?
1:10.0	Sundar Pichai is on the front lines of this evolution,
1:13.0	and he has an immense opportunity to impact our generative AI future.
1:18.0	He's the CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet,
1:22.0	a company with a market value of more than $800 billion.
1:26.0	He's been at CEO since 2015.
1:29.0	Pichai is remaking the company around the technology that we're all thinking and worrying about,
1:35.0	the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence,
1:39.0	which is changing Google's business model and which may change all of our business models.
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