Companies are offeringrentalof "digital workers", which areSaaSScontaining so-called "artificial intelligence", dressed up as humans. I agree with the personquoted as saying that this has the effect of dehumanizing human workers, as well as replacingthem. I expect they don't work very well, either.

The article ends by asserting that we "can't blame" the entrepreneurs for this vision. I saywe must.

If a "digital worker" has a psyche like a human, it should be have the same rights as a human.If it has that but always obeys orders, then it is a brainwashed slave, which should be illegalto create. If, however, it obeys orders because it has no goals, desires or feelings of itsown, then it is a machine, and it is wrong to pretend it is a "worker".

Advances in technology will make possible more points on that spectrumbut will not alter this conclusion.