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Microsoft AI Chief: Most White-Collar Jobs Automated in 18 Months
Mustafa Suleyman warned that AI will reach human-level performance on most professional tasks within 12-18 months, specifically targeting roles in legal, marketing, accounting, and project management. The prediction comes as computational power accelerates and agentic systems mature rapidly. It has sparked widespread debate on the speed of white-collar disruption.
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This is the clearest, highest-profile timeline yet from a top lab exec on when AI fundamentally reshapes the knowledge economy.