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Assunto:  MS AI Chief: AI will replace white-collar work
De:       Mike Powell
Data:     Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:24:31 -0500
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'I think we're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all,
professional tasks': Microsoft AI chief thinks AI will replace most
white-collar work in the 12 to 18 months - so is this the end for human
workers?

By Mike Moore published 20 hours ago

Mustafa Suleyman unsurprisingly thinks AI will bring big changes

    Microsoft AI head says white-collar jobs could be at risk from AI
    Major change could be coming over next 12-18 months
    Mustafa Suleyman is the latest in a series of tech CEOs to sound alarm on
jobs effect

Microsoft's AI chief has declared his belief AI is set to advance so far as to
be able to replace white-collar job roles within the next 12-18 months.

Speaking in a YouTube interview with the Financial Times, Mustafa Suleyman
addressed the company's push towards "artificial capable intelligence" a
term he coined for the next step towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

"I think we're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all,
professional tasks," Suleyman said. "So, white-collar work, where you're
sitting down at a computer - either being, you know, 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."

AI jobs risk

Suleyman also outlined his belief AI tools will be useful for almost every
area, as Microsoft looks to more towards "humanist superintelligence".

"There are going to be billions of digital minds," he said. "There are going
to be many, many different lineages of model. Creating a new model is like
creating a podcast or writing a blog - it is going to be possible to design an
AI that suits your requirements for every institution, organization, and person
on the planet."

Suleyman's opinions have been echoed by many other tech leaders in recent
months, reflecting a wider shift in the industry as AI becomes more commonplace
in workplaces across the world.

In May 2025, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also warned the US government about the
risk AI poses to white-collar jobs, predicting up to half of all entry-level
roles could be taken by AI, leading to unemployment of as much as 20% in the
next one to five years.

"It sounds crazy, and people just don't believe it", Amodei said, noting how AI
has the potential to affect society in positive and negative ways; "Cancer is
cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced - and 20% of
people don't have jobs."

"We, as the producers of this technology, have a duty and an obligation to be
honest about what is coming."

Link to interview:  https://youtu.be/YTrBz6Z5c0E


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