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BY Enrique Dans

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The more news we read about the evolution of corporate AI offerings and implementations, the more I struggle with one thing: The industry is rapidly turning AI agents into some sort of simulated employees.

There seems to be a rush to build the org chart in silicon: Microsoft gives agents identities, sponsors, access rights, and employment-like lifecycle management, and it explicitly governs them in a similar way as human identities. Salesforce even describes agents as “digital workers,” and promotes the idea of a digital workforce that tries to mimic human capabilities. ServiceNow has introduced individual AI passports specifying what each agent may do at runtime.

Apparently, what we are trying to do is reproduce the human organization in software, instead of asking ourselves what a truly machine-native organization should look like.…