{"id":213272,"date":"2026-02-13T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/white-collar-jobs-will-be-automated-in-18-months-warns-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T22:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:30:14","slug":"white-collar-jobs-will-be-automated-in-18-months-warns-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/white-collar-jobs-will-be-automated-in-18-months-warns-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-suleyman\/","title":{"rendered":"White-Collar Jobs Will Be Automated In 18 Months, Warns Microsoft AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman"},"content":{"rendered":"

White-Collar Jobs Will Be Automated In 18 Months, Warns Microsoft AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-02-13 00:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Most white-collar jobs may be automated by artificial intelligence (AI) in the next 12 to 18 months, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has warned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These include jobs that currently take up a significant number of professional workloads, such as document inspection, financial analysis, compliance checks, marketing optimisation, scheduling, and customer communication, he told Financial Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite collar work where you are sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer, an accountant, 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 said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany software engineers report that they are now using AI-assisted coding for the vast majority of their code production,\u201d Suleyman stated, citing software engineering as an early example.<\/p>\n

According to the Microsoft AI chief, AI-assisted coding tools now handle most of the code generation, allowing engineers to concentrate on higher-level activities like system architecture, debugging, verification, and deployment.<\/p>\n

The developments in “professional-grade” AI systems are drastically altering the way knowledge workers function, Suleyman said.<\/p>\n

He said such systems may carry out the majority of tasks at work at a human level, making a distinction between artificial general intelligence (AGI) and what he called “superintelligence.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI prefer the definition that focuses first on what it takes to build a system that could achieve most of the tasks that a regular professional in a workplace goes about on a daily basis. Think of it as a professional-grade AGI,\u201d Suleyman expressed.<\/p>\n

Suleyman asserted that the standard for human-level performance is approaching more quickly than expected in several professional domains. \u201cI think that we’re going to have a human-level performance on most if not all professional…<\/p>\n

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