"The 21st century is asking the question: What happens when all those office jobs get automated? In a recent conversation with the Financial Times, the CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman, delivered another in a series of predictions from AI leaders that white-collar work is on the precipice of a radical transformation thanks to AI. His timeline is 18 months until those law school and MBA grads-and many less-credentialed peers-are out of luck."
"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 on Fortune, by AI researcher Matt Shumer,"
Rapid advances in AI and exponential growth in computational power are poised to automate a wide range of professional tasks. Predictions from industry leaders foresee human-level performance on most white-collar functions within 12–18 months, threatening jobs in accounting, law, marketing, project management, and similar computer-based roles. Executives and researchers warn that models will soon code better than many human programmers and that entry-level white-collar positions could be slashed. Several CEOs and AI researchers have publicly expressed alarm and compared the imminent disruption to major historical shocks, implying dramatic labor-market consequences and a rethinking of professional credential-based career pathways.
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