AI Job Cuts Are Dumb — Gemini Makes Hassabis' Case

Hassabis says AI should multiply engineers’ output, not justify layoffs. Gemini’s coding leap turns that into a boardroom test.

Key takeaways

• At Google’s I/O event today, Demis Hassabis chose the worst possible moment for lazy AI layoff logic: just as Google DeepMind unveiled stronger coding models, ...
• That is the right argument. Companies treating AI productivity as a permission slip to cut payroll are thinking too small. Hassabis told Wired that if engineers become...
• > “I think it's a lack of imagination—and a lack of understanding of what's really going to happen,” Hassabis told WIRED.
• The timing matters because Gemini 3.5 Flash is being pitched as exactly the kind of model that makes executives reach for headcount spreadsheets. Google says it ca...

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