White-Collar Jobs

Mustafa Suleyman says AI will achieve human-level performance on professional tasks including law, accounting, and project management by 2027.

AI agents can now autonomously complete complex projects in hours, raising concerns about massive disruption to knowledge work and employment.

A new study from Microsoft Research pinpoints high-skill, white-collar jobs in finance, legal services, and software engineering as the most exposed to disruption from generative AI. The research highlights that AI is increasingly capable of performing complex cognitive tasks, fundamentally restructuring these professions.