The framing assumes cloud-first AI agents as the default caller. But there's another path: local-first AI where the human remains the orchestrator and the model never phones home.

The "humans as tools" model only works if the AI layer is centralized and owned by platforms. If inference runs on hardware you control, you're not callable - you're the one calling.

Been thinking about this a lot: https://www.localghost.ai/reckoning