Google CEO open to paying more tax

Bloomberg

Google is willing to pay more tax globally, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of the largest business unit of Alphabet Inc., said on Wednesday at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland.
“We are happy to pay more tax, whatever the world agrees to,” Pichai said. But he said the question was where Google should pay it. Critics have accused large US technology companies like Google of paying too little tax outside the US, despite deriving a large portion of their revenue from these other countries.
Pichai said that as Google hired more engineers globally— for instance, in France, where Google said that it would add more engineering and research staff—
it would equalise the distribution of its tax payments across different countries.
Nations should also come together and agree not to use artificial intelligence for military purposes, Pichai said.
He said that the militarisation of AI was unlikely to give a long-lasting advantage to any nation.
“AI is a great equaliser,” he said. “It’s tough to weaponise because everyone will have the same ability to get you back.”
Google’s Pichai said that countries ought to come together to take a global stand against AI-enabled weapons.