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Who is Sundar Pichai? Google's AI blunders prompt calls for leadership change

Source: Manu Fernandez/AP

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is facing calls to resign after recent AI blunders at the tech company.

The 51-year-old business executive, originally hailing from India, came under fire after the company was forced to pause its Gemini AI image generator for creating historically inaccurate images.

Several analysts have since voiced their opinions about Pichai’s position, prompting a wave of reports that questioned the future of the CEO’s role.

Author of the wrote that Google needed a “transformation” and this “must mean removing those who let the former run amok, up to and including CEO Sundar Pichai”.

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