Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months — for all white-collar work to be automated by AI

For the back half of the 20th century (what Fortune founder Henry Luce called “The American Century”), MBA and law-school degree programs were a ticket to a great office job and a path to the American Dream. The 21st century is asking the question: What happens when all those office jobs get automated?

In a recent conversation with the Financial Times, the CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman, delivered another in a series of  predictions from AI leaders that white-collar work is on...