Google CEO Pichai: The advantage of AI agents is that they work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without interruption

Google CEO Pichai: The advantage of AI agents is that they work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

2026-10-22 12:24 IT Home - Qingyuan

IT Home, October 22 news: According to a report by Business Insider at noon today (the 22nd), even Google CEO Sundar Pichai finds it difficult to grasp on his own everything that happens at Google every day. To that end, he has delegated part of the information-gathering work to AI agents.

Pichai described his way of working on a podcast: "If I had to understand what happened in the past 24 hours every day, it would easily take an hour. Now AI agents organize information for me and summarize it before handing it to me. Of course, I can still dig deeper, and I often do."

With the help of AI agents, Pichai can keep track of the R&D progress of Google's AI models and the usage of computing resources, and can also follow discussions scattered across multiple internal chat groups without having to read every conversation one by one. "We also have AI agents that specifically monitor computing resource usage, operating efficiency and utilization in various product areas, providing me with data and analysis. I think this helps everyone do their work better."

Handing tasks to AI agents does not necessarily mean the workload will decrease. IT Home learned from the report that an engineering director at Cisco who manages more than 10 AI agents disclosed that supervising them requires constant task switching, work may become more intense, and daily working hours have not been shortened.

For Pichai, the fact that AI agents can work around the clock is precisely the advantage. "AI agents run in the cloud, working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and they understand your previous work, so they can pick up where you left off. Work can continue indefinitely. When an agent continues to complete a previous task, you can start tackling the next problem, and then the next one."