By Kosta Andreadis
Publication Date: 2026-02-16 03:49:00
TL;DR: Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, predicts AI will fully automate most white-collar jobs, including lawyers and accountants, within 12 to 18 months by achieving human-level performance. This rapid AI advancement raises concerns about widespread job displacement and significant economic impacts across industries.
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, recently sat down with the Financial Times to discuss all things AI, and he had a few words to say about AI one day taking over and making jobs and employment a thing of the past. In fact, when it comes to white-collar jobs that involve sitting at a computer day in and day out, Suleyman has set a timeline of 12 to 18 months for those jobs to become redundant and “fully automated by an AI.”
“I think we’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks,” Mustafa Suleyman says. “White-collar work, where you’re sitting down at a computer – either being, you know, a lawyer, or an…
