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AI and the white-collar workforce

As of May 2026: Leading Microsoft's AI division and consumer products

Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told the Financial Times on February 13, 2026 that most white-collar work—accounting, legal, marketing, project management—will be fully automated within 12 to 18 months. It's the most aggressive timeline yet from a major tech executive, and it comes as AI coding assistants already generate 46% of code at companies using GitHub Copilot.

Updated May 29

Notable Quotes

"Many software engineers report that they are now using AI-assisted coding for the vast majority of their code production. That happened in the last six months." — Financial Times interview, February 2026

from AI and the white-collar workforce · Updated May 29

"We have to develop our own foundation models, which are at the absolute frontier, with gigawatt-scale compute and some of the very best AI training teams in the world."

from AI and the white-collar workforce · Updated May 29