Porat will also be engaged with policy makers to"recognize the importance of technology" and on issues including employment, economic, competitiveness and infrastructure expansion."
"We have a steady and experienced leadership team, many of whom have been with the company for well over a decade,"said Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini in statement about the shifts."We also have a strong bench of leaders at Google who can smoothly transition when people who've had long and successful careers here decide to pursue new opportunities inside and outside the company.
The company was caught flat-footed last fall when OpenAI launched its AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, and suddenly found itself in a rare spot where its core search business was threatened — if users could simply get answers from an AI-powered chatbot, how long would they keep entering queries into a search engine? It was an ironic moment, given that CEO Sundar Pichai had been talking up the company's"AI-first" strategyIn June, Google execs admitted to employees that users...
Geoffrey Hinton, known as"The Godfather of AI" and one of the most respected voices in the field, told the New York Times in May that he was the internet giant after a decade to warn the world about the potential threat of AI, which he said is coming sooner than he previously thought.