A digital native is a person raised on the Internet. A digital nomad is a person who moves around doing a computer job. And a digital labourer is not a person at all.
With the rise of agentic AI, or generative artificial intelligence tools that can operate without explicit instructions, tech enthusiasts have started promoting the idea of a workforce made up of human labourers working alongside AI tools that serve as “digital labourers”. AI agents, in this still largely speculative vision of the future, will be promoted to full employees.
