Der Kern für Leser: Suleyman named lawyers, accountants, marketers and project managers as jobs exposed to automation once AI reaches human-level capability for computer-based tasks.
Im Detail zeigt sich: The claim lands amid 49,135 AI-related layoffs this year and higher profit margins at large tech firms, but evidence from AI coding studies still complicates the replacement story.
Entscheidend bleibt: For Microsoft, the sharper signal may be strategic: Suleyman is making the case that the company cannot rely only on OpenAI and must build frontier models of its own.
Quellen: Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months—for all white-collar work to be automated by AI（Fortune）, Most office jobs will be automated in 18 months, says Microsoft AI chief（Business Today）, Microsoft's AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months（Tom's Hardware）; CocoLoop