Google CEO Believes AI Replacing Entry Level Programmers Is Not The “Most Likely Scenario”

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Google parent Alphabet's CEO Sundar Pichai shared his thoughts on whether AI will replace entry level programmers and about the role clean energy can play when it comes to powering the massive data centers required to power artificial intelligence software. Pichai made his comments at the Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh campus earlier this week, as he shared that Google has powered up its data centers with geothermal energy to reduce their carbon footprint.

The Alphabet and Google head acknowledged the growing interest in small modular reactors (SMRs) for nuclear energy, sharing that capital investment was flowing into developing alternate energy sources to cleanly power computing facilities. He added that AI should be viewed more as a collaborative tool instead of a comparative element that competes with human intelligence.

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During his talk, when asked by students whether AI would replace entry level programmers, Pichai started out by stating that "there's a version of this question which can be asked across many disciplines." He believes that "the most likely scenario in all of these things is, it will help people. It'll both help existing programmers do their jobs, where most of their energy and time is going into, you know, higher aspects of the task. Rather than you know fixing a bug over and over again or something like that, right."

Pichai has already experienced the efficiency gains at Google, and citing the AI power code editor Cursor AI, he shared, "It is just lowering the barriers for who can program, right, like how can you, more, in a natural language medium, interact. So, programming