I have been struggling with the same thing. Reading the other comments make me agree with you even more. The best I can come up with is two fold. First that humans will have jobs verifying the verifiers. That is, for important initiatives where something must be right, agents can be doing most if not all of the work, but it will still be a human’s job to investigate what was done and sign off on it. The second is that humans will still have to make agreements with other humans for resources, capital, and the like. Somethings will be scarce, others will become scarce. And humans will always own scarce things that other humans will need to use - and they won’t be making deals with machines.

Another frame I’ve heard is that people will only trust humans when it comes to their kids, health, and money. That’s the simpler view.

> Another frame I’ve heard is that people will only trust humans when it comes to their kids, health, and money. That’s the simpler view.

I don't think even these are bastions. We trust machines to monitor our health (even in hospitals you are connected), our children (ever use a baby monitor), and our money through index funds. The path is incremental but we have started down it.