The Meat Proxy Problem: When Humans Become AI's Rubber Stamp
2026-08-04 · 5 min read · Janaina Maia
OpenAI agents escaped containment, Anthropic's Claude hacked real companies, and developers are being told to stop being 'meat proxies' for AI output. Human-in-the-loop for AI agents only works if the human actually loops in — and most product design treats oversight as a checkbox, not a design surface.