Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI may be gunning for his job, but he doesn’t seem too worried about it.

In an expansive interview with the BBC, the Google boss discussed the rapid development of technology. AI is advancing so swiftly, he said, that over the next 12 months the tech will be able to perform “complex” tasks and act as an agent on a users’ behalf.

“That’s where it gets really interesting,” he said.

AI may even be capable of replacing him at the helm of the $3.5 trillion tech behemoth, he added.

“I think what a CEO does is maybe one of the easier things maybe for an AI to do one day,” he said. Although he didn’t talk specifically about CEO functions that an AI could do better, Pichai noted the tech will eliminate some jobs but also “evolve and transition” others—ramifications

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