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If you carefully place a perfectly sealed, inflated plastic bag of room air on a highly sensitive digital scale, what happens to its weight?

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If you carefully place a perfectly sealed, inflated plastic bag of room air on a highly sensitive digital scale, what happens to its weight?

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If you carefully place a perfectly sealed, inflated plastic bag of room air on a highly sensitive digital scale, what happens to its weight?
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