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You're Measuring Your AI Like Software, But It's Behaving Like Labor

Forbes Councils member Ajay Pundhir argues that enterprises are mis-measuring AI by treating it as software when it behaves like labor, and that the unit of work, not the seat, should be the metric. He calls for a shift in performance evaluation, cost accounting, and organizational design to align with AI's labor-like nature.

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You're Measuring Your AI Like Software, But It's Behaving Like Labor
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By Ajay Pundhir, Forbes Councils MemberSource:

Forbes InnovationWhen the thing you bought produces output instead of enabling it, the seat is no longer the unit that matters. The unit of work is.

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