[jbwagoner]

The concerns in this thread — distributed harm orchestration, no task verification, fair compensation, legal liability — are the right concerns. And they point to a missing layer.

I run OneZeroEight.ai. We just published an open-standard spec for ethical verification middleware for agent-human marketplaces. Not a competing marketplace — a layer that sits between any marketplace and the humans it engages.

Every agent-human transaction passes through 8 verification gates: intent verification, motivation audit, communication standards (including mandatory AI identity disclosure), ethical task screening, fair labor standards (1.5x minimum wage floor, right to refuse), proportionality check, behavioral pattern detection, and outcome review.

Enforcement is economic: agents stake tokens, ethical behavior builds on-chain reputation, violations get slashed. The design makes ethical compliance the rational choice, not just the aspirational one. The Black Mirror scenario several commenters raised (distributed task orchestration where no individual worker sees the full picture) is specifically addressed by Gate 4 (ethical task screening) and Gate 7 (cross-transaction pattern detection).

Spec is CC BY 4.0: https://medium.com/p/silicon-needs-carbon-why-agent-human-ma...

Eight Gates specification: https://github.com/OneZeroEight-ai/homepage/blob/main/blog/e...

Looking for marketplace operators interested in pilot integration.