{"slug": "you-re-measuring-your-ai-like-software-but-it-s-behaving-like-labor", "title": "You're Measuring Your AI Like Software, But It's Behaving Like Labor", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# You're Measuring Your AI Like Software, But It's Behaving Like Labor\n\nBy Ajay Pundhir, Forbes Councils MemberSource:\n\n[Forbes Innovation](https://www.forbes.com/innovation/)When the thing you bought produces output instead of enabling it, the seat is no longer the unit that matters. The unit of work is.\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-re-measuring-your-ai-like-software-but-it-s-behaving-like-labor", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/youre-measuring-your-ai-like-software-but-its-behaving-like-touc", "published_at": "2026-08-10 10:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 11:42:43.348363+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Ajay Pundhir", "Forbes Councils", "Forbes"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-re-measuring-your-ai-like-software-but-it-s-behaving-like-labor", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-re-measuring-your-ai-like-software-but-it-s-behaving-like-labor.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-re-measuring-your-ai-like-software-but-it-s-behaving-like-labor.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/you-re-measuring-your-ai-like-software-but-it-s-behaving-like-labor.jsonld"}}