News Summary

• Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman said that ‘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’ It is not clear whether he meant that AI would actually have swept away all this work in 12 to 18 months, or just that it would be capable of doing so.
• The truth is that most white-collar professional roles do not just involve “sitting down at.
• a computer”, from lawyers attending court hearings to project managers going on site visits.
• Then there are the meetings (internal and external) A recent study of Norwegian workers found that meetings consumed an average of 12% of work hours and 14% of company wage bills.