Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb

The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.
Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, is keen to talk about the coding skills of his company’s newest model, Gemini 3.5 Flash. The model has been trained to perform complex agentic coding tasks: translate large code bases from one language to another; find and fix bugs lurking deep in knotty c…
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