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Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?

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Re: Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?

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post #4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)

Exactly this. OP, this is basically where this book goes - AI management that directs humans around as automata.

Right, I could easily write a few prompts to replace all but the lowest level of our orgchart.

Re: Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?

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Re: Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?

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post #25

The industry is calling it "human-in-the-loop" for now but it's basically going in the direction OP hints at.

Though human-in-the-loop is usually used in scenarios where control is held by said human (e.g. verification or approval).

The difference I'm curious about is agents being the primary caller, and humans becoming an explicit dependency in an autonomous loop rather than a human-in-the-loop system.

Re: Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?

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I sort of see it on the flip side. If you read through the MCP spec, there is the potential for the human input. If should be the AI doing all the grunt work it is capable of with the human putting in judgement when needed to complete some task.

Re: Ask HN: When do we expose "Humans as Tools" so LLM agents can call us on demand?

#30
You don't.

How remarkable to think that humans would be happy to dehumanize each other at least in language, before anything else at the promise of 'optimising' for something... whatever it is... it could be the 200 year futuristic axe at this point.

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