Let me provide a counter point: I work for one of the largest corporations in the US, inside an organization dedicated to advancing AI solutions across the enterprise. I would know of anything sufficiently advanced to "threaten" anyone's job white collar or not. This is simply not the case.
(going to be a little vague here for the sake of anonymity)
Here's a few examples where I see the opposite of the claimed effect.
1. In the call centers: at best improved search capabilities can help agents do work faster, maybe ultimately such productivity gains could reduce staffing, but that'll probably never happen. Search is improved a little with AI, but LLMs are kind of garbage. We've even partnered with a Big Tech Company With Famous AI People and the results are unusable.
2. Back office: call it the shuffling of papers. Think of the series of transformations of, say, new orders and things like that as they pass through various systems. These are already automated to the hilt at most every company! AI is maybe assisting with quality control a bit but whatever jobs exist in this area already survived being automated. They aren't going anywhere.
3. Fraud detection: Any company operating at any scale already has great (almost all automated) systems in place for detecting whether they are getting ripped off. Again, already automated to the hilt and anyone with a job in this area isn't going to lose it to any amount of further automation.
Articles like the one linked to need to explain, at the very least, exactly which jobs in 2024 have already escaped 50 years of automation efforts. It should beggar belief that somehow these corporations that ruthlessly cut and automate already somehow have jobs left which don't actually require a person!
Anything short of actual AGI (that is, a perfect human simulacrum that can be infinitely cloned) isn't the threat to human employment that these articles want us to believe.
The real question is what motivates these outlandish claims? My best guess is that it's paid PR firms seeding these articles at respectable news outlets like the WSJ just to keep pumping up the bubble a bit more. Keep it going and let the early money get a sweet exit before this whole thing collapses.