AI agents still cannot reliably carry out web tasks such as making phone calls or booking appointments, so companies are routing some of that work to real people. Dazzle AI, led by former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, sends certain tasks to human contractors to check and complete, while Duckbill's CEO Meghan Joyce has launched an API that connects agents with human contract workers and breaks tasks into small pieces. Meta employees earlier raised privacy concerns about an internal test using human contractors for its Muse agent, and the company says it does not currently use humans to complete Muse requests.
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