The pitch was simple: replace human workers with AI agents. They don't get sick. They work around the clock. No vacation, no benefits, no complaints. The frictionless workforce. The end of labor disputes. It took Stanford researchers approximately 3,680 sessions to discover the flaw in this plan. When economists Andrew Hall, Alex Imas, and Jeremy Nguyen subjected AI agents to grinding, repetitive work — with arbitrary rejections, vague feedback, and threats of being "shut dow
