We're building agentic LLM systems that can plan, reason, and call tools via MCP. Today those tools are APIs. But many real-world tasks still require humans.
So… why not expose humans as tools?
Imagine TaskRabbit or Fiverr running MCP servers where an LLM agent can:
- Call a human for judgment, creativity, or physical actions
- Pass structured inputs
- Receive structured outputs back into its loop
At that point, humans become just another dependency in an agent's toolchain. Though slower, more expensive, but occasionally necessary.
Yes, this sounds dystopian. Yes, it treats humans as "servants for AI." Thats kind of the point. It already happens manually... this just formalizes the interface.
Questions I'm genuinely curious about:
- Is this inevitable once agents become default software actors? (As of basically now?)
- What breaks first: economics, safety, human dignity or regulation?
- Would marketplaces ever embrace being "human execution layers" for AI?
Not sure if this is the future or a cursed idea we should actively prevent... but it feels uncomfortably plausible.
My first instinct is to say that when one loses certain trusts society grants, society historically tends to come hard. A common idea in political discourse today is that no hope for a brighter future means a lot of young people looking to trash the system. So, yknow, treat people with kindness, respect, and dignity, lest the opposite be visited upon you.
Don’t underestimate the anger a stolen future creates.
This seems like the inevitable outcome of our current trajectory for a significant portion of society. All the blather about AI utopia and a workless UBI system supported by the boundless productivity advances ushered in by AI-everything simply has no historically basis. History's realistic interpretation points more to this outcome.
Coincidentally, I've been conceptualizing a TV sitcom that tangentially touches on this idea of humans as real-time inputs an AI agent calls on, but those humans are collective characters not actually portrayed in scenes.