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AI agents could birth the first one-person unicorn — but at what societal cost? | TechCrunch

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AI agents are embedding human workflows into software, freeing the human to do more in less time.

They can be assigned tasks, and they can make decisions with varying degrees of autonomy.

Multiple AI agents could even collaborate on complementary tasks, paving the way for some real work done entirely autonomously.

AI sales agents are also booming, with VC -backed companies boasting that it wants to replace the human workforce.

Lattice, an HR and “people management” platform last valued at $3 billion , is going further by giving “digital workers” official employee records.

CEO: “We, as CEOs, are going to be the first generation that manages people and AI ,” You.com CEO Richard Socher said at Davos .

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