{"id":213052,"date":"2026-02-13T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/microsoft-ai-chief-predicts-automation-of-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:35:10","slug":"microsoft-ai-chief-predicts-automation-of-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/microsoft-ai-chief-predicts-automation-of-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI Chief Predicts Automation of White-Collar Jobs Within 18 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microsoft-ai-chief-predicts-automation-of-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/\">Microsoft AI Chief Predicts Automation of White-Collar Jobs Within 18 Months<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microsoft-ai-chief-predicts-automation-of-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/\">https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microsoft-ai-chief-predicts-automation-of-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"forklog.com\">forklog.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"short_excerpt\">AI to automate white-collar jobs within 18 months, says Microsoft AI CEO.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of professional tasks performed by white-collar workers will be automated within two years, according to Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. This shift will impact employees across various fields such as law, accounting, and marketing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mustafa Suleyman sets out Microsoft AI&#039;s goal of &#039;humanist superintelligence&#039; | FT Interview \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YTrBz6Z5c0E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Financial Times, the executive noted that artificial intelligence is approaching \u201chuman-level performance\u201d in most office tasks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite-collar work, where you sit at a computer, whether as a lawyer, accountant, project manager, or marketer, will largely be automated by AI within the next 12-18 months,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Suleyman cited software development as an example, noting that Microsoft programmers are employing neural networks in most work processes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is already a different relationship with technology, and it has developed literally over the past six months,\u201d the expert added.<\/p>\n<p>Suleyman emphasized that due to increased computing power, AI models already surpass most programmers. This technological shift justifies substantial investments in companies, including OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>Despite supporting the developer of ChatGPT, the CEO of Microsoft AI stressed the need to develop proprietary AI products to enhance resilience and independence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must develop our own cutting-edge models, with gigawatt-scale computing and some of the world\u2019s best <span data-descr=\"large language model\" class=\"old_tooltip\">LLM<\/span> training teams. This is our mission of technological self-sufficiency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional AGI<\/h2>\n<p>Suleyman anticipates the emergence of \u201cprofessional AGI\u201d\u2014a form of general artificial intelligence capable of performing most cognitive tasks at a human&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microsoft-ai-chief-predicts-automation-of-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft AI Chief Predicts Automation of White-Collar Jobs Within 18 Months https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/microsoft-ai-chief-predicts-automation-of-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-13&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/II-voenshhina-AI-war.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22,20,18,17],"class_list":["post-213052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-large-language-model","tag-llm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213054,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213052\/revisions\/213054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}