Subject: Re: ?Microsoft AI CEO Warns Most White Collar Jobs Fully Automated ?Within Next 12-18 Months?
On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:39:55 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
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dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
On 2/14/2026 8:58 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:27:01 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
?Microsoft AI CEO Warns Most White Collar Jobs Fully Automated
?Within
Next 12-18 Months?; Anthropic Fears Potential For ?Heinous
Crimes'?
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/microsoft-ai-ceo-warns-most-white-collar-job s-will-be-fully-automated-within-next-12-18-months
?The man leading Microsoft?s AI sprawling efforts is sounding the
alarm
over imminent mass labor disruptions, warning that the overwhelming
majority of white-collar professional work could vanish to automation
far sooner than most business and policy leaders are willing to admit
?
something we?ve been concerned about since early 2023.?
I ain?t buying it.
I would be very surprised if it happened that quickly. But longer
term? "Always in motion is the future".
Presumably, he is talking about lower-level types. A few AI-designed
buildings collapsing immediately after construction should put a brake
on the process.
Well, this is MICROSOFT saying this.
A company whose updater (rather a critical component, at least to
Microsoft) recently showed that it is still ignoring the Active Hours
(or perhaps deliberately using them to ensure it updates while the
user is using the computer), but stays parked on "100% done" on the
last reboot for a long long long long time.
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