[xp84]

Indeed. If you squint a little, it kind of looks like the machines are trying to shift to a world where we are just meat puppets to do the tricky stuff there aren't robotics for (yet). :(

[skirmish]

Cory Doctorow's "The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI" [1] agrees with you:

"<...> a reverse centaur is machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a squishy meat appendage for an uncaring machine."

[1] https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-12-05...

[bizzletk]

Or humans are just the "sex organs" that work to bring about the artificial life-forms that come next.