Microsoft AI chief backtracks on job loss fears — while Satya Nadella pushes for AI agents to be treated like employees

In an unexpected twist, Microsoft’s AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, recently cleared up the intent of his statement that AI would eliminate white‑collar jobs in less than 18 months: “I said ‘tasks’ in the quote that you’ve just said. So that does not mean jobs. Jobs and roles are the broader category, and tasks are the components of that,” he explained (via The Verge).

In a response to Suleyman’s original quoted interview, one of our own Windows Central community members had remarked, “They all spout scare-mongering rubbish about replacing or wiping out all humans, without an ounce of credibility; purely laughable fiction.”