The Posthuman Workforce: Why AI Agents Need a New Kind of Governance

AI agents aren't software, and they aren't employees. They're a category organizations have never had to manage before: one that fails in unfamiliar ways, moves at machine speed, and executes instructions without the hesitation or pushback organizations have always structurally depended on from people.

The instinct is to make the agents themselves safer. New research argues that's necessary but not sufficient: agents lack the developmental architecture that makes human judgment reliable, and no amount of training installs it after the fact. In this episode, Redpanda CTO Tyler Akidau sits down with INVERSELF cofounders Kymberly Lasser-Chere and Chris Pollitzer to discuss what a century of workforce governance gets right, where that playbook breaks down for agents, and what to build instead.