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Harvard Business Review's IdeaCast podcast interviewed McKinsey CEO Bob Sternfels, where he classified AI agents as people. "I often get asked, 'How big is McKinsey? How many people do you employ?' I now update this almost every month, but my latest answer to you would be 60,000, but it's 40,000 humans and 20,000 agents."

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 18 points 2 months ago

yes they should pay taxes for using human resources

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

no but we don't just tax labor. honestly we shouldn't. tax the coporate income and don't allow them to dodge it overseas.

[–] 01189998819991197253 7 points 2 months ago

Let's pretend we agree with this. Creating CSAM is highly illegal in all the civilized world. Would this mean that all those ai "people" flooding the internet with CSAM would go to prison for child sexual abuse?

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Should the shit I took this morning be classified as a person?

Everyone is a person besides the people behind things apparently, lol.