{"id":213266,"date":"2026-02-13T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/most-white-collar-jobs-could-be-automated-within-12-18-months-says-microsoft-ai-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:25:14","slug":"most-white-collar-jobs-could-be-automated-within-12-18-months-says-microsoft-ai-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/most-white-collar-jobs-could-be-automated-within-12-18-months-says-microsoft-ai-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Most White-Collar Jobs Could Be Automated Within 12\u201318 Months, Says Microsoft AI Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indusbusinessjournal.com\/2026\/02\/most-white-collar-jobs-could-be-automated-within-12-18-months-says-microsoft-ai-chief\/\">Most White-Collar Jobs Could Be Automated Within 12\u201318 Months, Says Microsoft AI Chief<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indusbusinessjournal.com\/2026\/02\/most-white-collar-jobs-could-be-automated-within-12-18-months-says-microsoft-ai-chief\/\">https:\/\/indusbusinessjournal.com\/2026\/02\/most-white-collar-jobs-could-be-automated-within-12-18-months-says-microsoft-ai-chief\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 13:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"indusbusinessjournal.com\">indusbusinessjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianewengland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/amazon.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, India \u2014 A majority of white-collar jobs that rely on computer-based work could be automated within the next 12 to 18 months, according to a warning from Microsoft\u2019s chief of artificial intelligence, Mustafa Suleyman.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Financial Times, Suleyman said Microsoft is racing to develop what he described as a \u201cprofessional-grade artificial general intelligence,\u201d capable of performing most tasks currently handled by lawyers, accountants, project managers, and marketing professionals.<\/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 Suleyman was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>He said the shift underway in artificial intelligence goes far beyond incremental productivity improvements and is likely to result in structural displacement across knowledge-based professions. Microsoft\u2019s strategy, he added, is focused on capturing a larger share of the enterprise market by automating routine and repeatable tasks such as document drafting, data analysis, and project coordination \u2014 functions that currently require skilled professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Suleyman also said Microsoft plans to expand its own AI model development to reduce reliance on OpenAI, following revisions to the partnership agreement between the two companies. He suggested that building custom AI systems will soon become far easier, comparing the process to creating a podcast or writing a blog, allowing institutions and individuals to tailor AI tools to their specific needs.<\/p>\n<p>The comments come amid broader workforce restructuring across the global technology sector as companies ramp up AI investments. Oracle is reportedly planning to cut between 20,000 and 30,000 jobs as it expands its AI data center capacity, while Amazon has announced layoffs affecting about 16,000 employees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indusbusinessjournal.com\/2026\/02\/most-white-collar-jobs-could-be-automated-within-12-18-months-says-microsoft-ai-chief\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most White-Collar Jobs Could Be Automated Within 12\u201318 Months, Says Microsoft AI Chief https:\/\/indusbusinessjournal.com\/2026\/02\/most-white-collar-jobs-could-be-automated-within-12-18-months-says-microsoft-ai-chief\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/indusbusinessjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AI.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22,20],"class_list":["post-213266","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\/213266"}],"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=213266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213268,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213266\/revisions\/213268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}