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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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[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 37 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Integrate AI into the OS
Demand purchase of a Windows license for the AI in the OS
GOTO 2

It’s an infinite amount of money from every customer!

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It’s an infinite amount of money from every customer!

But it's okay, because there's infinite money to be saved by laying off technical expert staff.