Subj : Re: MS AI Chief: AI will replace white-collar work To : Mike Powell From : Kurt Weiske Date : Wed Feb 18 2026 07:50 am -=> Mike Powell wrote to All <=- MP> 'I think we're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not MP> all, professional tasks': Microsoft AI chief thinks AI will replace MP> most white-collar work in the 12 to 18 months - so is this the end for MP> human workers? The slope is increasing, but most of the doomsayers are saying something more like 5 years for most jobs. I'm sure the increased profits reaped by labor replacement with AI will be turned into a universal income and we'll enter tech utopia. Right? Right? --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/700) .