As AI advances, it creates temporary labor markets for unforeseen and unpredictable types of tasks. The great paradox of automation is that the desire to eliminate human labor always generates new tasks for humans. What we call "the last mile" is the gap between what a person can do and what a computer can do. Without a doubt, software developers willl use ghost work to perform the tasks at hand and push AI to its limits. [...] dependency on temporary human labor has always been a part of the history of technology's long march toward automation. [...]