Microsoft exec suggests AI agents will need to buy software licenses, just like employees
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Are AI agents employees or tools? A Microsoft exec suggested they're new paid "seats," a shift that could reshape SaaS pricing — and spark pushback.

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.

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
    62·
    7 hours ago

    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
      23·
      6 hours ago

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