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Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)
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Buried in the story was a deceptively simple question: does your AI agent count as an employee?

At a recent conference, Microsoft executive Rajesh Jha floated a provocative idea. In a future where companies deploy fleets of AI agents, those agents may need their own identities — logins, inboxes, and even seats inside software systems. If so, AI wouldn't shrink software revenue. It could expand it.

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don't see how this distinction affects the question of responsibility at all. If anything, "it's an employee" gives the company more room for deniability.

[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Lol. Ask Uber how the actions of their employees and contractors aren't their responsibility.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5y5w148p5o

[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And those are for contracted workers, the ones Uber specifically tries to use these loopholes for!

Facedeer is a well-known AI activist troll, his deflections can generally be ignored

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -5 points 14 hours ago

Sheesh, you're still obsessing over me? What a sad and pointless life you lead.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"More room for deniability" doesn't mean "perfect universal deniability."

[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I have questions about where I said that, but okay.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io -2 points 11 hours ago

Ask Uber how the actions of their employees and contractors aren't their responsibility.

Emphasis added.