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What is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents?
The Guardian's Arielle Pardes reports on startups using AI agents as executive assistants, coders and chiefs of staff. At the startup Anything, founder Dhruv Amin says there are 15 human employees and roughly 150 agents, a ratio Amin believes will become normal. The piece notes tension with human workers.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
What it means for you
Some startups already run with roughly ten AI agents for each human employee, and their founders say this will become normal.
For lawmakers
Companies are boasting of doing more with fewer people using agents, which raises questions about labour rules for semi-autonomous AI.
The question it raises
If agents fill named roles like assistant and office manager, what does it mean to be a co-worker?
The record
- Questions
- What happens to work, income and the economy?
- People
- Dhruv Amin (About them, Founder, Anything) · Arielle Pardes (Wrote it)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 30, 2026, via
the-guardian-ai(tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting) - Cite this
- The Guardian, “What is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents?”, October 29, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/guardian-2026-10-29-working-with-ai-agent-coworkers
Our notesLight lane: excerpt only. Dhruv Amin's title is inferred from the excerpt (Amin's AI startup); check. Figures are the company's own, as reported.