Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider

submitted by gokayburucdev to technology 312 points | 53 comments https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests-ai-agents-buy-software-licenses-seats-2026-4 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.