Must-read article by Muneer M in the Times Ascent today! Humans have started working alongside AI agents, and so the CHRO has two sets of staff/resources to manage and not one! This is both thrilling and scary! Soon, employee handbooks would have "orientation" and "assimilation" programs for AI agents! Managers would get trained on how to empathetically engage with them. Soon, in mandatory training sessions for staff, L&D coordinators would invite your friendly neighbor, AI agents. Soon, we will see the conference rooms booked by AI agents, discussing how managers and humans are on vacation and making babies and agents slog for them! Soon, AI agents would be filling reviews on hashtag # reddit , hashtag # glassdoor , and hashtag # fishbowl of the world! Imagine if these AI agents developed "cognitive dissonance" from getting infected by humans they worked with! Imagine the day they become "sentient"; Jurassic Park would come alive!...