Are AI agents employees? Enterprise analyst says it's mostly a vendor budget play
jonerp · x · 2026-09-15
Jon Reed's weekly enterprise hits-and-misses column at diginomica tackles whether AI agents should be treated like human employees.
- HBR research shows leaders anthropomorphize AI to make it feel less foreign to staff and to signal AI ambitions to stakeholders.
- Gartner's Emily Rose McRae argues the 'agents as employees' framing is vendor-driven, aimed at accessing headcount budgets.
- Reed's take: agents are better at tasks than jobs. The column also covers whether enterprise harnesses can make agentic software trustworthy, transformer-loop security concerns, and a pile of Microsoft 'whiffs.'
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