Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., delivers a speech on artificial intelligence at the Bruegel European economic think tank in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020./Credit:	Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., delivers a speech on artificial intelligence at the Bruegel European economic think tank in Brussels, Belgium, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020./Credit: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg/Getty Images

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