From Breitbart:
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence over the past several years has already begun to transform white-collar work in observable ways. Recent reporting has highlighted the emergence of what some call “AI fatigue” among software engineers, where the technology has delivered productivity gains but also brought increased exhaustion as workers face pressure to handle larger workloads simultaneously.
The Financial Times reports that Mustafa Suleyman, who leads Microsoft’s AI division, has made a bold prediction about the near-term impact of AI on white-collar professions. In an interview with the Times published this week, Suleyman stated that he expects most, if not all, tasks performed by white-collar workers will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months.
Suleyman claims that AI systems will soon achieve human-level performance.
“I think that we’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks,” Suleyman said. “So white-collar work, where you’re sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person — most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.”
Suleyman used software engineering as an example, saying developers are already using AI-assisted coding.
“It’s a quite different relationship to the technology, and that’s happened in the last six months,” he said.
CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman joins FT editor Roula Khalaf to explain why most of the tasks accountants, lawyers and other professionals currently undertake will be fully automated by AI within the next 12 to 18 months https://t.co/yYKzS7NIOP pic.twitter.com/HvA6Q7KgIc
— Financial Times (@FT) February 12, 2026
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