Suleyman named lawyers, accountants, marketers and project managers as jobs exposed to automation once AI reaches human-level capability for computer-based tasks.
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.
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.
参考資料: 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