No coincidence here that the term human resources was invented for labour. They are resources that can be exploited until they can't be further exploited.
It weirded me out big time when I first heard people talking corporate-speak saying "we need a resource for ...". Took a while to proccess , apparently they meant a person, I was thinking "hmm.. Wouldn't it be better to hirr someone, what resource can do this? ML? SaaS service?"