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

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> Published: 2026-08-10 10:00:00+00:00

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

By Ajay Pundhir, Forbes Councils MemberSource:

[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.

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