Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months — ‘We’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks’

Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman said that artificial intelligence can replace most white-collar work in the 12 to 18 months. The Microsoft head said this during a YouTube interview with the Financial Times, where they talked about the company’s aims to achieve “humanist superintelligence.” During this conversation, the topic steered into artificial capable intelligence, which was the term that Suleyman coined for the phase in AI development between basic large language models (LLMs) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

When the host asked him about the latter, he said, “I think we’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks. 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…