- Google Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai received $226 million for his work last year.
- He got most of it in the form of shares.
- For comparison: the heads of major Swiss companies such as Novartis, Nestlé and UBS receive around 10 million francs.
- The head of Google is concerned about new technologies such as artificial intelligence.
In January, Google and its holding company, Alphabet, announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs. This led to an open letter of protest from the employees to their CEO, Sundar Pichai. Now Pichai’s 2022 earnings of $226 million have been announced.
rules of artificial intelligence
In the technological race for artificial intelligence, Google chief Pichai spoke in favor of legal guidelines for new technologies at the start of the week. In particular, he mentioned the possibility of creating so-called fake videos in which real people can be filmed in a deceptively real way.
“There must be consequences for producing fake videos that harm society,” Pichai emphasized in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes,” which aired Monday night. Experts have long warned of the danger of phishing with the help of so-called generative artificial intelligence (AI), which can produce texts, images or videos.
These fears have recently been reinforced, for example, by an artificial image of the Pope and a series of images created by Amnesty International of the alleged arrest of former US President Donald Trump.
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Sundar Pichai has been with Google since 2004.
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