# Sundar Pichai Reveals What AI Will Do Next

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxDObdH2YSc

[00:00] Sometimes I'm about to go meet on a CEO.
[00:03] Sometimes I'm about to go meet on a CEO.
[00:03] Sometimes while walking to the meeting,
[00:04] Sometimes while walking to the meeting,
[00:04] I'll ask Gemini, "Tell me what is something that could really be on his or her mind?"
[00:06] I'll ask Gemini, "Tell me what is something that could really be on his or her mind?"
[00:08] And I get really insightful things, and which makes for a more human connection because that's actually what they are worried about.
[00:12] And I get really insightful things, and which makes for a more human connection because that's actually what they are worried about.
[00:14] Google CEO Sundar Pichai isn't nearly as well known as other tech CEOs, but Google is playing a massively important role in exposing everyday people to AI tools, and has the resources and talent to eventually win the AI race.
[00:15] Google CEO Sundar Pichai isn't nearly as well known as other tech CEOs, but Google is playing a massively important role in exposing everyday people to AI tools, and has the resources and talent to eventually win the AI race.
[00:18] On April 8th, I went to Google headquarters to talk to Pichai about how AI is reshaping decision-making, the rise of AI assistants, and what it will take to build this technology responsibly.
[00:20] On April 8th, I went to Google headquarters to talk to Pichai about how AI is reshaping decision-making, the rise of AI assistants, and what it will take to build this technology responsibly.
[00:22] You can read the rest of my interview with Pichai in Time magazine.
[00:24] You can read the rest of my interview with Pichai in Time magazine.
[00:26] Look, in some ways we've had a mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
[00:28] Look, in some ways we've had a mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
[00:31] I view AI as the most profound way we can make progress against that mission.
[00:32] I view AI as the most profound way we can make progress against that mission.
[00:35] Uh it's going to be such a powerful enabler
[00:37] Uh it's going to be such a powerful enabler
[01:01] enabler pretty much across all walks of your life.
[01:03] And so, we want to make sure we translate that into concrete, tangible benefits for billions of people.
[01:10] Internally, I'm able to use our tools and you know, query Gemini to get extraordinarily important information I need to make decisions.
[01:21] In the past, I would suddenly you know, I would probably wait for a couple days for to get the decision.
[01:25] Now it's a command away.
[01:27] It's a prompt away.
[01:29] Right?
[01:32] And uh I I've I've enjoyed uh coding.
[01:35] Uh I've enjoyed building things.
[01:38] So, I think it's really making me more productive in ways I couldn't have imagined before.
[01:41] I think it's really going to help with decision-making by bringing the right information, as well as being a an assistant to you as you're making these decisions.
[01:51] Since the beginning of 2026, AI agents like Open Claw have gained huge adoption with people outsourcing many parts of their lives to machines.
[02:00] I asked Pichai about how agents fit into Google's future.
[02:03] how agents fit into Google's future.
[02:05] People are trying to schedule calendar, plan dinners, uh throw parties, make it to their kids' appointments.
[02:12] You know, your life has a lot of tasks, uh and so literally, where can we do more of that work and and and make your life 10, 20, 30, 40% better, easier, so that you can use the time for things that matter to you.
[02:30] Right? And and that's that's why I think the personal notion of personalized agents helping you across many, many things.
[02:36] Can it automatically look at my inbox and tell, "Here are the three emails I need to respond to?"
[02:43] And here are suggested responses, which I can edit maybe.
[02:48] And you know, so those are simple examples to more complex workflows.
[02:54] Right? Always monitor what's happening in the world regarding this topic, summarize it and bring it to me in a digestible way.
[02:59] You know, these are all examples and there are infinite possibilities.
[03:01] People working on what
[03:04] possibilities.
[03:06] People working on what we've been calling agentic AI for the past couple of years.
[03:11] Uh you know, internally, a lot of us are using these powerful agents.
[03:13] I think Open Claw kind of brought it to the hands of many people in a tangible way where people could kind of understand the change that's about to come.
[03:22] So, I think it was very important for that moment to happen.
[03:26] But I do think the era of personalized agents, very capable agents which are helping you with many, many things, uh that will play out for everyone.
[03:35] And so, that's the exciting phase ahead.
[03:37] In general, in terms of how they are adopting the tools, we generally find that people are engaging uh pretty actively.
[03:46] Last year we launched this thing called Nana Banana, which allowed people to create images with prompts.
[03:53] We literally had, you know, over a billion images created just in a matter of days.
[03:59] People around the world engaging with, expressing their creativity.
[04:03] So, I see people engaging with the
[04:05] So, I see people engaging with the technology, regardless of I think people technology, regardless of I think people have rightfully have rightfully a sense of optimism, sense of anxiety about the whole technology space as a whole.
[04:15] But in terms of their day-to-day usage, I think they're engaging.
[04:18] If they get the chance, they they they're engaging pretty heavily with these tools.
[04:22] AI has an extremely low approval rating in America right now.
[04:26] I asked Pichai to respond to criticism that Google is building tools people don't want.
[04:30] I think there are there are a set of larger policy ideas.
[04:35] You know, I view our role as engaging with policy makers and regulators to help them think through the areas which I think are much more important in the near term, where we are engaged very closely, is how do we responsibly grow and meet our energy needs in a sustainable way?
[04:53] Things like permitting reform, investing in new types of energy.
[04:57] How do you manage the cybersecurity risks that are emerging?
[05:00] How do you invest in education and reskilling the workforce?
[05:04] I think those how do you handle
[05:06] I think those how do you handle deepfakes?
[05:07] deepfakes?
[05:08] How do we make sure we can all understand what reality is?
[05:11] understand what reality is?
[05:13] To us, those have felt like the more immediate efforts, and we haven't by any means addressed all of those areas.
[05:16] immediate efforts, and we haven't by any means addressed all of those areas.
[05:18] So, I think we have focused more as a company on engaging as well as contributing in those areas.
[05:20] I think we have focused more as a company on engaging as well as contributing in those areas.
[05:22] So, what would you say to some people who are scared of the idea of big tech controlling potentially the most powerful technology ever created?
[05:24] contributing in those areas. So, what would you say to some people who are scared of the idea of big tech controlling potentially the most powerful technology ever created?
[05:26] scared of the idea of big tech controlling potentially the most powerful technology ever created?
[05:28] controlling potentially the most powerful technology ever created?
[05:30] potentially the most powerful technology ever created?
[05:33] ever created? Look, I think there are many, many uh companies pursuing this.
[05:35] Look, I think there are many, many uh companies pursuing this.
[05:39] Even just through this AI moment, there there are new companies which are what you would probably call big tech, which didn't exist 3 years ago.
[05:41] there are new companies which are what you would probably call big tech, which didn't exist 3 years ago.
[05:43] which are what you would probably call big tech, which didn't exist 3 years ago.
[05:44] you would probably call big tech, which didn't exist 3 years ago.
[05:46] didn't exist 3 years ago.
[05:49] I've never seen a space be more dynamic.
[05:51] Uh there are a variety of players, big and small, working on this technology.
[05:53] There is open source.
[05:55] We just released Gemma 4, which is a powerful open source model.
[05:57] model.
[05:59] It's fully open source, available for anyone to use.
[06:01] for anyone to use.
[06:03] I do think over time, governments will be involved given the power of this technology.
[06:05] be involved given the power of this technology.
[06:06] technology.
[06:08] This is the kind of technology which which is it's not it's unlike anything before.
[06:11] There is no way one company or a few companies are going to do it detached from the rest of society.
[06:18] So, I think you know, we'll all have to build it and usher this next phase in a responsible way.
[06:24] Like many of his peers paving the way in AI, Pichai told me he expects this new technology will need unprecedented frameworks, [music] governance, and guardrails.
[06:33] But he trusts that humanity will rise to the moment.