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Microsoft AI chief: 18 months for all white-collar work to be automated

https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/when-will-ai-kill-white-collar-office-jobs-18-months-microsoft-mustafa-suleyman/
3•geox•1h ago

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codingdave•1h ago
Again: "Corporate exec who will benefit financially if everyone uses AI wants everyone to use AI."

Microsoft is in trouble if their huge investment in AI doesn't pay off, so any of their execs are going to be parroting the corporate line, regardless of whether they really believe it.

ReptileMan•1h ago
It will happen exactly two months after Tesla FSD is ready.
toomuchtodo•1h ago
Make him bet his total comp on a prediction market. Words are cheap.
latexr•1h ago
> But that drumbeat is beginning again, with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk saying in Davos last month that he thinks artificial general intelligence—AI that matches or exceeds human-level intelligence—could arrive as early as this year.

Who, as we all know, is really good at predictions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono...