{"id":213263,"date":"2026-02-13T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:00:14","slug":"microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sambadenglish.com\/national-international-news\/world\/white-collar-jobs-face-automation-within-1218-months-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman-11102656\">Microsoft AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sambadenglish.com\/national-international-news\/world\/white-collar-jobs-face-automation-within-1218-months-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman-11102656\">https:\/\/sambadenglish.com\/national-international-news\/world\/white-collar-jobs-face-automation-within-1218-months-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman-11102656<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 02:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"sambadenglish.com\">sambadenglish.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> Chief of artificial intelligence at Microsoft, Mustafa Suleyman, has warned that most white\u2011collar roles that rely on computers could be automated within the next 12 to 18 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He informed that the company is building a \u201cprofessional\u2011grade AGI\u201d, that could automate majority of works done by lawyers, accountants, project managers and marketers.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>AI Shift to Trigger Structural Disruption Across White-Collar Professions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In an interview with the Financial Times, Suleyman said Microsoft is racing to develop \u201cprofessional\u2011grade AGI\u201d, AI systems capable of performing nearly everything a human professional can do. He said the current shift in AI landscape would go beyond incremental productivity gains to produce structural displacement across knowledge\u2011based professions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite-collar work, where you\u2019re sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person, most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months,\u201d the report quoted Suleyman as saying.<\/p>\n<p>He described Microsoft\u2019s strategy to capture a larger share of the enterprise market by automating routine and repeatable tasks such as document drafting, data analysis and project coordination that currently require skilled employees.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Microsoft Aims to Reduce Reliance on OpenAI, Scale In-House AI Models<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>He informed about Microsoft&#8217;s plans to increase AI model productions to reduce reliance on OpenAI, following a revised agreement between the two companies.<\/p>\n<p>Further, he said &#8220;creating a new model will be as simple as making a podcast or writing a blog,\u201d adding that institutions and individuals could design AI tailored to their specific needs.<\/p>\n<p>US tech giant Oracle plans to cut 20,000 to 30,000 jobs to expand its AI data\u2011centre capacity, while Amazon recently announced lay off 16,000 employees as part of its AI restructure plan.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report from PwC India said artificial intelligence could contribute&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sambadenglish.com\/national-international-news\/world\/white-collar-jobs-face-automation-within-1218-months-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman-11102656\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman https:\/\/sambadenglish.com\/national-international-news\/world\/white-collar-jobs-face-automation-within-1218-months-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman-11102656 Publish Date: 2026-02-13 02:01:00 Source Domain: sambadenglish.com New Delhi:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img-cdn.publive.online\/fit-in\/1200x675\/sambad-english\/media\/media_files\/2025\/07\/30\/artificial-intelligence-2025-07-30-20-16-07.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22,20],"class_list":["post-213263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213263"}],"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=213263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213265,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213263\/revisions\/213265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}