White-Collar AI Automation: 18 Months, 75% Unemployment Gap

White-collar AI automation could eliminate most knowledge-sector jobs within 18 months, with Microsoft's AI chief warning of a 75% unemployment gap for office workers.

Eighteen months — that’s the window Microsoft’s AI chief put between now and a world where most white-collar AI automation is technically feasible. And when Anthropic’s CEO offered a nearly identical warning from the other side of the industry, the two predictions together stopped looking like competitive hype and started looking like a shared read on where the labor market is heading. Read more »