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Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months
(www.businessinsider.com)
They said that 12-18 months ago
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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I think the problem they cannot solve yet is a) knowing what to do and b) knowing when it's properly done.
The result is possibly more output per qualified human, but with your competition having the same tool, you're just keeping pace, not advancing.
but with your competition having the same tool, you’re just keeping pace, not advancing.
But isn't that actually what most advancements have been? More things can be done with fewer people or fewer resources, competition gets it too, but overall, society advances.
The major problem is the whole needing to have a job thing. If we all profited from this, it would be awesome, wouldn't it
Start with the ceo's
His what, exactly?
Tasks
Several leaders in the AI industry have warned of impending mass job replacement.
Careful everyone, the AI we made is about to fuck you all over... Anyways try copilot!
Firstly, citation needed on the evidence to support this wild claim, secondly that is NOT a good thing for society, only for corporate overlords, and only in the extraordinarily short term. If nobody has jobs, nobody has money, if nobody has money, who the fuck is buying your shit-ass products??? These allegedly brilliant CEO clearly failed Econ101, and I'm so fucking tired of having to hear their brain-dead takes that are just wish-casting to cope over the terrible investment they've gone all in on.
They didn't fail econ 101, everything they learned taught them to do this. They don't consider macroeconomics when making business decisions. It's all about this quarter, baby. If shit breaks, the government picks up the bill.
Sadly I think you're right, and that last part is the unsustainable part; I don't think any one of them considers what it means for them personally when this all hits the wall and comes to an abrupt halt. All those billions of dollars will be meaningless when the global economy shifts away from the US dollar as the reserve and you end up with trillion dollar bills like Zimbabwe. It's just economic suicide, even for the owners and CEOs, but they're so brain-rotted and coked out they can't or won't see it. If you ask me they belong in some sort of rehab program after their assets have been seized, or in jail. The amount of social harm done through jobs lost and economic devastation eclipses a thousand fold a street level murder, we need to start looking at financial crime differently.
yeah I remember a year ago when they said the same. They keep moving the goal posts because they HOPE it'll happen, but it's not going to. LLM's across the board, regardless of the company, have progressively become worse. They've sunk billions into something that simply isn't improving and they either don't know how to improve it or are just praying to whatever gods they believe in that it will some how magically get good.
There's nothing left to feed these things. For example you can go to Claude right now and ask it something so painfully simple that there's a strong chance it'll hallucinate a solution. not even a strong chance, a guaranteed chance. Like I just asked it "With the Fish Shell how can I get cat < notes.txt to work?" it didn't know how. it presented 3 options all of which were wrong. It claimed I was using an older version of Fish that doesn't support Heredocs. that's not true. Fish doesn't support Heredocs at all, period, and never has.
I agree that comments like this are just hype. However, this is what Claude responded first try when I asked it your question verbatim:
Fish doesn’t support the <<EOF heredoc syntax — that’s a Bash/POSIX feature. Here are your options in Fish: Use printf or echo:
printf '%s\n' \
'line 1' \
'line 2' \
'line 3' > notes.txt
Use begin/end with a string:
echo "line 1
line 2
line 3" > notes.txt
Use string with multiline input:
string collect -- "line 1
line 2
line 3" > notes.txt
Or just call bash inline for a one-off heredoc:
bash -c 'cat <<EOF > notes.txt
line 1
line 2
line 3
EOF'
The printf approach is generally the most idiomatic Fish way to do it.
Breaking newz: Microsoft AI CEO, replaced with an AI CEO. AI AI CEO! Sing along kids!
AI CEO!
AI CEO!
AI CEO!
And Mecha Hitler was its name-o
The cognitive dissonance it must take to usher in the conditions for a communist revolution, while simultaneously bankrolling Donald Trump, proves US Big Tech is run by people who are far less smart than they think they are.
They are smart at one thing: shortsighted profit. That is all. Everything else is an irrelevant skill.
"Can you make our line go up?"
"Yes, but it will tank the economy and your company with it"
"So you can make our line go up? You're hired!"
Big Tech is run by people who are far less ~~smart~~ scared than they ~~think they are~~ should be
FTFY
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Snake oil salesman: "Most illnesses cured by snake oil within 12-18 months"
"CEO said something without any evidence or reason" articles that just parrot said CEO without any thought or analysis of any kind are completely pointless.
It's why CEOs really like AI, they're both just saying whatever they think their customer wants to hear.
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Prove it. Do yours first.
Sure buddy, right after full self driving probably. Maybe he should go and circlejerk it with Melon Husk.
Is there anyone out there compiling a lost of all these hilariously wrong predictions that CEO's and billionaires make about science and technology?
Pretty sure I heard the same exact predictions back in 2020 when GPT3 rolled out.
Reminds me of how Musk predicts shit like "we'll be on Mars in 5 years" or "we will have fullly autonomous cars within 2 years" every few years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autonomous_Tesla_vehicles_by_Elon_Musk for the latter example
They've been saying this shit for the past 5 years. Idk how investors keep falling for this scam
Just another data farm bro I swear just one more petabyte of stolen work it's not random it's hallucinating wow it's the future have you heard sam bro one more year and you'll fire all your employees bro I swear
Mate, your job may be pure useless wank that cen be replaced with a virtual parrot, mine is not.
May you be the first
Does he consider himself a blue collar worker or what?
Red collar.
It's the blood of the working class that makes it red.
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We should start with the positions that exhaust the largest percentage of the profit margin then. Namely: the c suite.
Including CEOs
Bro, you're a white collar worker
Or is he a rich owner?
Well, yeah. Of course the most useless and expensive white collar workers are going to be exempt. But a boy can dream...
With AI, "12-18 months" is the new "in ten years".
Having a strong dejavu about having had the same dajavu a year ago that was a dejavu about this exact statement from a year ago before that.
Am I imagining or they keep saying that every year for the past 3-4 years?
I'm sure they must be right this time.
Yes. It's different this time because they've exhausted the cooling and compute power available on the planet. The adversity of the strong evidence that no breakthrough is possible with current tech will surely lead to a breakthrough.
Hey look, an article about microslop and AI that’s not specifically about crazy-ass bugs introduced into the system or how its destroying the company.
They learned from Musk
Microslop is still desperately trying to sell their ai bullshit as the second coming of Jesus in cost savings. They know, and we know, that that's pure bullshit. They can feel shareholders breathing down their necks at all this spending on ai going nowhere.
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"What will happen to all these people who can no longer work?
"...I'm sorry, do I look like someone who gives a shit about other people? Peasants die all the time, what's a few hundred million more?"
Can we start with him?
I think I heard this 12 to 18 months ago.
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