Stop building digital employees. Start building intelligent companies

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,”...