{"id":261673,"date":"2026-06-02T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/microsoft-copilot-draws-backlash-after-ai-chief-says-ai-would-soon-automate-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:45:08","slug":"microsoft-copilot-draws-backlash-after-ai-chief-says-ai-would-soon-automate-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/microsoft-copilot-draws-backlash-after-ai-chief-says-ai-would-soon-automate-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Copilot draws backlash after AI chief says AI would soon automate white-collar jobs within 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theindependent.sg\/microsoft-copilot-draws-backlash-after-ai-chief-says-ai-would-soon-automate-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/\">Microsoft Copilot draws backlash after AI chief says AI would soon automate white-collar jobs within 18 months<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theindependent.sg\/microsoft-copilot-draws-backlash-after-ai-chief-says-ai-would-soon-automate-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/\">https:\/\/theindependent.sg\/microsoft-copilot-draws-backlash-after-ai-chief-says-ai-would-soon-automate-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 02:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theindependent.sg\">theindependent.sg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Microsoft Copilot has drawn backlash after Microsoft artificial intelligence (AI) CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicted that within 12 to 18 months, most tasks in white-collar work would be fully automated by AI\u2014jobs where people are \u201csitting down at a computer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">He described such roles as \u201ceither being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person\u201d in a conversation with the Financial Times earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">In the same interview, when asked about AI hallucinations and whether they could ever be fully eliminated, he said he believed they would be \u201clargely eliminated,\u201d saying the technology had improved at an \u201cunbelievable\u201d rate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Instead of getting convinced, netizens, however, poked fun at \u201chow well Copilot is going\u201d. One commenter even quipped: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 61, 66);\">Copilot is obviously where he got this information from.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Another called the tool \u201cuseless,\u201d saying, \u201cCopilot output takes me more time to correct than if I were to just do it myself.\u201d Others, meanwhile, compared it to rival AI tools on the market, including Claude.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Backlash against AI tools like Copilot has recently pushed <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">top tech executives to soften earlier claims about the technology\u2019s ability to replace jobs<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">. While AI primarily benefits tech companies, including Nvidia, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNA last month that CEOs who blame AI for job cuts are \u201cjust too lazy\u201d and do it to \u201csound smart,\u201d but they only end up \u201cscaring people.\u201d \/<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">TISG<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read also: <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">MOM: AI is \u2018augmenting but not replacing\u2019 jobs; no indication of significant job displacement due to AI \u2018at this point\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theindependent.sg\/microsoft-copilot-draws-backlash-after-ai-chief-says-ai-would-soon-automate-white-collar-jobs-within-18-months\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Copilot draws backlash after AI chief says AI would soon automate white-collar jobs within&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/theindependentsg\/uploads\/2026\/6\/2d78f475-7a7b-49d4-bad8-e259be3af7c9.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-261673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261673"}],"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=261673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261675,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261673\/revisions\/261675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}