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.

  • LordMayor@piefed.socialEnglish
    25·
    5 hours ago
    1. Integrate AI into the OS
    2. Demand purchase of a Windows license for the AI in the OS
    3. GOTO 2

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

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 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.