[mrothroc]

Yes, at some point AI will be fully integrated into society so that there are entire autonomous sections. But society doesn't move at the same pace as technology.

The output of agents has to have economic value, and for the foreseeable future this means someone is going to have to buy something.

Right now, it is humans who ultimately make the economic decision. Even if you have fully autonomous agentic organizations selling to each other, there are one or more humans at the end of the of the chain who agree to exchange money for value.

Science Fiction writers have envisioned futures where some currency other than money is used to track value, but so far as I can tell we are nowhere near moving to anything like that.