IF they are a manager, then they are managing people. Are you paying appropriate salaries and benefits to your AI agents? Does HR have them in the system?
...no, not a manager.
Aircraft are also more productive and capable than people in specific activities, and useless wastes of money in others.
>IF they are a manager, then they are managing people.
Not really. For example for L1, a visa for managers and executives, managing people isn't a hard requirement, instead it may be "employee’s ability to manage an essential function of the organization at a high level, without direct supervision of others", and thus project managers and architects and even senior engineers make the cut.
Handling capable AI agents would seem to fit if those AI agents perform "an essential function of the organization" and you manage them "at a high level, without direct supervision of others".