Agent‑Personhood Tax and Labor Risk

If firms start accounting AI agents as 'people' in headcounts, governments and regulators will face pressure to define what counts as employment for agents — affecting payroll reporting, benefits, withholding, corporate tax bases, and statistical measures of employment. Absent clear rules, companies could use 'agent headcounts' to inflate job‑creation claims, shift compensation into platform rents, or evade labor protections and employer obligations. — This raises immediate policy choices about tax treatment, labor law, corporate reporting standards, and how national statistics will be interpreted in the AI era.