Mustafa Suleyman on AI will create more jobs than it destro…

Mustafa Suleyman

Microsoft AI CEO; author

I think that we're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks. So white-collar work, where you're sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.

AI Verified (Feb 13, 2026)

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Mustafa Suleyman, quoted in Windows Central, February 13, 2026.

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AI will create more jobs than it destroys

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AI Verified Predicts automation of most professional tasks, strongly supporting opposition to net job creation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Predicts most professional tasks will soon be fully automated, opposing net job creation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Windows Central’s 13 Feb 2026 report attributes this quote to Mustafa Suleyman. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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Build artificial general intelligence

I came to Microsoft with an overriding mission: to create Superintelligence that delivers a transformative, positive impact for millions of people. This requires us to build frontier models, at scale, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

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AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations

I think AI legal personhood is extremely not on the table. I don't think our species survives if we have legal personhood and rights alongside a species that costs a fraction of us, that can be replicated and reproduced at infinite scale relative to ...

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