{"id":1014113,"date":"2026-06-12T11:40:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014113"},"modified":"2026-06-12T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:10:51","slug":"microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-clarifies-months-after-warning-that-ai-would-automate-most-white-collar-work-says-i-never-meant-jobs-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/12\/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-clarifies-months-after-warning-that-ai-would-automate-most-white-collar-work-says-i-never-meant-jobs-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman clarifies months after warning that AI would automate most white-collar work; says: I never meant jobs, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mustafa Suleyman would like everyone to read his February prediction again, this time with a highlighter. The Microsoft AI CEO, who told the Financial Times that most white-collar tasks would be fully automated by AI within 12 to 18 months, now says he never predicted job losses at all\u2014the operative word, he insists, was always &#8220;tasks.&#8221; The clarification came during an episode of The Verge&#8217;s Decoder podcast on Monday, where Suleyman argued that AI will help lawyers, accountants and project managers work faster rather than push them out of work entirely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sending an email, having a conversation with a colleague, putting together a PowerPoint\u2014sub-tasks will increasingly become digitized, automated,&#8221; Suleyman said on the show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustafa Suleyman would like everyone to read his February prediction again, this time with a highlighter. The Microsoft AI CEO, who told the Financial Times that most white-collar tasks would be fully automated by AI within 12 to 18 months, now says he never predicted job losses at all\u2014the operative word, he insists, was always &#8220;tasks.&#8221; The clarification came during an episode of The Verge&#8217;s Decoder podcast on Monday, where Suleyman argued that AI will help lawyers, accountants and project managers work faster rather than push them out of work entirely. &#8220;Sending an email, having a conversation with a colleague, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014114,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014113\/revisions\/1014114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}