Google and corporate parent Alphabet are at the center of the artificial intelligence revolution. But Sundar Pichai, the CEO of both, made no mention of how AI is reshaping today’s workforce in his commencement address Sunday at Stanford University, a leader in AI research.

“The most timeless advice I’ve learned is technology agnostic,’’ said Pichai, whose $1.7 billion net worth earned him a spot on Forbes’ 2026 World’s Billionaires List. “It’s about you, the life you want to build for yourself, and the choices that help you pursue that life.”

While Pichai avoided the boos that have greeted other commencement speakers when they touted the technology, his speech unfolded against a backdrop of students walking out in protest of Google’s ties to the Israeli government and its controversial contracts with the U.S. government.

Rather than answering those criticisms, or offering predictions about what AI might or might not do, Pichai spoke to the graduating class about the three principles that helped him “get more moments right than wrong” as he went from being a financially strapped Stanford........

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