"“human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks” being done by AI. Most tasks that involve “sitting down at a computer” will be fully automated by AI within the next year or 18 months, he said, naming accounting, legal, marketing, and even project management as vulnerable."
"Suleyman predicted “human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks” being done by AI. Most tasks that involve “sitting down at a computer” will be fully automated by AI within the next year or 18 months, he said, naming accounting, legal, marketing, and even project management as vulnerable. Suleyman's warning echoed the viral essay of the week, a version of which was published at Fortune.com, by AI researcher Matt Shumer, who compared this moment to February 2020, when the pandemic was about to hit America."
"Suleyman cited the exponential growth in computational power as a flashing red signal that AI could replace large swaths of professionals. As “compute” advances, he said, models will be able to code better than most human coders. Shumer and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have both written about their alarm, even sadness, at watching their life's work rapidly grow obsolete."
"If Suleyman's warning sounds familiar, that's because it was the tune of early 2025, when many CEOs issued similarly apocalyptic prophecies. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned last May AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs (though recently changed his tune). Ford CEO Jim Farley said AI would cut in half the number of white-colla"
MBA and law degrees once led to stable office careers and the American Dream. The 21st century raises the question of what happens when office work is automated. Mustafa Suleyman predicts human-level performance on most professional tasks by AI, with most work done by sitting at a computer fully automated within the next year or 18 months. He names accounting, legal, marketing, and project management as vulnerable. The warning aligns with comparisons to early 2020 pandemic timing, suggesting a more dramatic disruption. Exponential growth in computational power is cited as enabling models to code better than many human coders, making current professional skills rapidly obsolete.
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