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Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 6 days ago by gokayburucdev@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Roko's Basilisk grows another head...

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're telling me an AI is going to run Windows 11?

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[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

They must have been talking to Oracle on how to squeeze their customers.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

keeps pushing AI into anything and everything realizes this fucks up their business model MFW

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

As long as they do and I don't

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip -5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (13 children)

I think what they’re missing is that it becomes trivial to build software. If there is a license fee, someone will just have AI generate a version of that software that does not require a license. Software companies have no moat anymore.

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Lemmy: omg we luv paid software licenses now.

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