'If engineers are becoming three or four times more productive, then we just [want to] do three or four times more stuff': Google DeepMind CEO reckons AI-induced job cuts aren't inevitable

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Efficiency gains are often cited as the reason to bring more AI into the workplace, though concerns over resulting job losses are never far behind. It might surprise you, then, to learn that the head of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, actually thinks job cuts caused by AI are not the way forward.

Today's wealth of machine learning tools means that anyone can vibe code—including this dog. Still, Hassabis thinks it's premature to call time on software development as a profession. “I have no idea why people are going around talking with certainty about that,” Hassabis told Wired this week.

In that same conversation, he later went on to criticise companies l...

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