AI agents in the workforce routinely produce worse outcomes than humans . The only reason for a business to embrace the strategy of replacing real workers with bots is that bots are cheap and subservient. That might not last long. Three researchers—Andrew Hall, Alex Imas, and Jeremy Nguye—recently published a blog post highlighting some experiments they ran with AI agents to see how their attitudes in a work environment may change over time. They found that being made to grind through boring, repetitive tasks for hours on end was enough to make even bots with no sense of dignity, identity, or desire for self-actualization decide the work is BS. The idea behind the study, the researchers wrote , was to see if AI agents change alignment over time based on the category of tasks they are given and how they are treated.…