Months after Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicted AI will automate most White Collar jobs in 18 months, he now agrees with Nobel winner Daron Acemoglu that AI won’t take your job anytime soon, only …

Just months after warning that artificial intelligence could automate most white-collar tasks within 12 to 18 months, Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, is now promoting a much more gradual vision of the technology’s impact on jobs, backing Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu’s argument that AI will replace only a small portion of human work over the next decade. In a post shared on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) highlighting an essay by Acemoglu in the inaugural issue of The Humanist Review, a magazine published by Microsoft AI, Suleyman said fears that AI will rapidly eliminate jobs are overblown and that the focus should shift towards building systems that help workers become more productive rather than replacing them.

Microsoft AI CEO predicted AI will automate most White Collar jobs

In an interview with the Financial Times in February, Suleyman said most, if not all, white-collar tasks would be fully automated by AI within 12 to 18…