Microsoft AI chief executive has claimed that white-­collar jobs will mostly be fully ­automated ­within the next 18 months

Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft AI. Photo: Bloomberg

Mustafa Suleyman of Microsoft AI. Photo: Bloomberg

We’re starting to think the rain might be permanent. Like all the other things we thought were temporary about the new world, but that won’t go away. Then the rain started alternating with the cold, sometimes the two together.

All the time spent indoors made us brooding and introspective. So on Wednesday, we all read the essay dropped by one of the lesser-known players in AI.