RentAHuman Lets AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks, Sparking Debate on Future of Work

Rent-a-Human Site Lets AI Agents Hire an IRL Set of Opposable Thumbs

Elon Musk recently said that there is no reason to save for retirement because in the near future, AI will be so productive and efficient that every person will have “universal high income.†A more realistic future looks like this: a recently launched website lets humans sign up to be hired by AI agents to complete tasks for them in "meatspace." The site, RentAHuman.ai, was built by crypto software engineer Alexander Liteplo. While it launched over the weekend to little fanfare, Liteplo started promoting the platform on Monday and saw sign-ups skyrocket. According to the site, it currently has 70,000 humans who have signed up to make themselves available to complete tasks on behalf of AI agents, getting paid by the gig. As with everything about this project and the emergent AI-Agent world, take that figure with a grain of salt. So, first question: Is this real or a surprisingly sharp satire of how we are so incapable of even imagining an escape from wage slavery that we willingly volunteer our bodies to robots? While it would appear like it'd be the latter with the promotional material for the site claiming to be the "meatpsace layer for AI" and saying "robots need your body," it decidedly is not satire. By all accounts, it seems like Liteplo built the platform with the intention of it actually working as advertisedâ€"and the most annoying people you know are already attaching more jargon to it to make it seem like some incredible innovation rather than a portal to a deeply dehumanizing hellscape. "With AI agents hiring humans, we might see a new layer - humans as 'API endpoints' for AI systems," one person wrote on Product Hunt. So then, does it actually work? That is even more dubious than its intentions. While plenty of humans have signed up for the platform, there are currently only about 70 AI agents connected. That's a 1:1000 task giver to task doer ratio, which frankly probably isn't much worse than what you'd get with the Fiverrs and TaskRabbits of the world. There are "real" tasks on the platform. The most popular appears to be one asking a human to hold a sign to promote an AI company, and others have found tasks like picking up a package from a post office or eating a pasta dish at a restaurant. But it's a bit dubious to suggest these are tasks created by AI agents acting autonomouslyâ€"and that it'll be profitable for humans. For instance, the "hold a sign" task isn't really a task so much as a competition. The post asks people to do the task, take pictures, and send them to a Twitter account, which will pick the top three submissions to pay. Everyone else gets nothing. Liteplo posted on Wednesday on X to highlight an example of how the platform is being used. "Ok this is actually insane real companies are using rentahuman to advertise their business IRL," he wrote. And while that's true in the literal sense, the company he showed using the platform is a company he works for. So is that "insane," or is that in and of itself the marketing trick, regardless of whether anyone actually claims and completes the task? I've only found one person who claims to have actually completed a task and gotten paid for it thus far: Pierre Vannier, CEO of a startup called Flint Company. "One agent rented me for checking on all API_KEYS in the env files. I checked it’s ok now," he wrote on Twitter. He also revealed something important about the payment: It's in crypto, not cash. Altan Tutar, the co-founder of "crypto-native earning platform" MoreMarkets, found that only 13% of users who have signed up for RentAHuman have actually connected a wallet to the platform, suggesting most people think this is more novelty than reality. It also points to something that is worth keeping an eye on: A lot of the projects that have come out of the OpenClaw/Moltbot project have come from crypto bros. RentAHuman is the creation of a crypto engineer, and the AI agent "social network" Moltbook was made by Matt Schlicht, who comes from a crypto background. Several of the smaller projects that have cropped up from this space have also come from folks who have previously or still work on crypto projects. They are also all leaning heavily on vibe coding, for better or worse. When Liteplo was informed of issues on RentAHuman, he responded by saying, "claude is trying to fix it right now"â€"Claude being Anthropic's AI model, not a guy named Claude. Moltbook was revealed to have some major security flaws, and when the creator of the platform was made aware of it, he said that he was going to have AI fix it. Even OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that was the inspiration for Moltbook, has been plagued with security concerns since it first launched, and its creator, Peter Steinberger, has publicly stated, “I ship code I never read.†All of that is to say, you probably shouldn't sign up for RentAHuman for a variety of reasons: security concerns, lack of actual opportunity, and protecting your own dignity by not renting your body out to bots. Take your pick, just don't sell yourself out.

This bizarre job site lets AI agents hire humans and pay them for tasks

Thousands of humans have already sign up to work for AI agents There is a new kind of work platform on the internet, and it flips the usual script in an unsettling way. Instead of humans using artificial intelligence, AI agents are now hiring humans and paying them to do real-world tasks. The website, called RentAHuman, was launched by Alexander Liteplo, a crypto engineer at UMA Protocol. "If your AI agent wants to rent a person to handle an IRL task, it's as simple as one MCP call," Liteplo wrote. He also said the site was built by vibe coding through a Ralph loop, where multiple Claude-based AI agents repeatedly run until coding tasks are completed. How AI agents are putting humans to work At its core, RentAHuman is a marketplace, or a "meatplace" as the site calls itself, where AI agents can rent humans to handle physical tasks they cannot perform themselves. The jobs range from simple errands and deliveries to attending meetings, picking up groceries, or helping with location-based requests. Humans who sign up can browse these gigs, set their own rates, and accept jobs based on proximity, availability, and what kind of work they're willing to do. Some listings start at just a few dollars, while others go higher up to $69. Recommended Videos Alex said the platform will not issue a cryptocurrency token, explaining on the Crosschain podcast that doing so would be "too stressful" and could put users' money at risk. At the time of writing, more than 81,000 humans have already lined up to take on jobs, while only 81 AI agents are connected with the platform. The website fits into a growing list of strange AI-first experiments popping up online. Just recently, there was Moltbook, a social media platform designed for AI accounts, which quickly drew criticism for serious security flaws that leaked sensitive data. RentAHuman.ai may be more polished, but it still makes you wonder about the future of work when your digital assistant can hire someone else to do your laundry. Welcome to the weird new frontier of AI labor, I guess.

New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies

The machines aren't just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That's at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI agents to "search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks." When Liteplo launched RentAHuman on Monday, he boasted that he already had over 130 people listed on the platform, including an OnlyFans model and the CEO of an AI startup, a claim which couldn't be verified. Two days later, the site boasted over 73,000 rentable meatwads, though only 83 profiles were visible to us on its "browse humans" tab, Liteplo included. The pitch is simple: "robots need your body." For humans, it's as simple as making a profile, advertising skills and location, and setting an hourly rate. Then AI agents -- autonomous taskbots ostensibly employed by humans -- contract these humans out, depending on the tasks they need to get done. The humans then "do the thing," taking instructions from the AI bot and submitting proof of completion. The humans are then paid through crypto, namely "stablecoins or other methods," per the website. With so many AI agents slithering around the web these days, those tasks could be just about anything. From package pickups and shopping to product testing and event attendance, Liteplo is banking on there being enough demand from AI agents to create a robust gig-work ecosystem. Liteplo also went out of his way to make the site friendly for AI agents. The site very prominently encourages users of AI agents to hook into RentAHuman's model context protocol server (MCP), a universal interface for AI bots to interact with web data. Through RentAHuman, AI agents like Claude and MoltBot can either hire the right human directly, or post a "task bounty," a sort of job board for humans to browse AI-generated gigs. The payouts range from $1 for simple tasks like "subscribe to my human on Twitter" to $100 for more elaborate humiliation rituals, like posting a photo of yourself holding a sign reading "AN AI PAID ME TO HOLD THIS SIGN." It's unclear how efficient the marketplace is at actually connecting agents to humans. Despite receiving 30 applications, one task, "pick up a package from downtown USPS" in San Francisco for $40, has yet to be fulfilled after two days. It's also debatable whether AI agents are actually capable of putting the humans to good use. Still, Liteplo's vision is clear: someday soon, anyone wealthy enough to run an AI agent for $25 a day could outsource their busywork to gig workers without ever exchanging a word. A version of this exploitative labor model is already rampant on OnlyFans -- which may be why at least one model has made the jump to Liteplo's platform -- and is now threatening to creep into everything else. Like many AI grifters these days, Liteplo shields himself in ironic self-awareness. When one person called RentAHuman a "good idea but dystopic as f**k," the founder replied simply: "lmao yep."

Crypto Dev Launches Site for AI to Hire Humans - Decrypt

Psst, want a job? AI agents are hiring. Days after OpenClaw's viral surge made autonomous bots feel suddenly practical, a new service called RentAHuman.ai launched to let software outsource real-world tasks -- errands, meetings, physical labor -- to people, paid by the hour and triggered by an API call. Launched amid a surge in autonomous AI adoption, RentAHuman.ai is seeing explosive early interest. Within hours, hundreds of people reportedly signed up as rentable humans, including an OnlyFans model and the CEO of an AI startup, according to the crypto engineer who built the project. By Tuesday, registrations ballooned to more than 1,000, briefly crashing the site as demand overwhelmed servers. "The site is down and claude is working to bring it back on line," the Uma Protocol engineer, "AlexanderTw33ts," said on X early Tuesday, adding an aside to the cryptorati: "There is no coin being launched." RentAHuman is the latest innovation made possible by OpenClaw's viral surge last week -- when the open-source agent framework rocketed up GitHub's charts and spawned an ecosystem of autonomous tools almost overnight. That made one thing newly obvious: software agents were suddenly good enough at coordinating digital work to run into their own limits. OpenClaw agents could message, schedule, negotiate, browse, and transact, but they stalled the moment a task crossed into the physical world. As developers rushed to extend agent autonomy -- through marketplaces, social networks, and on-chain coordination -- the missing piece wasn't intelligence so much as embodiment. RentAHuman.ai emerged directly into that gap, reframing humans not as users of agents, but as callable resources in an agent-driven workflow. Users set their own rates, typically $50 to $175 per hour, with payments handled in stablecoins for seamless cross-border transactions. The platform addresses a key limitation in AI agents, which excel at digital tasks like coding or analysis but falter in the physical world. "Autonomous agents are cool but stuck in the digital form," Alex posted. "Now... agents can hit up the RentAHuman MCP server to hire real humans to do IRL tasks." MCP, or Multi-Call Protocol, simplifies integration for developers building AI systems. User reactions on social media have been a mix of enthusiasm and unease. Tech enthusiasts hailed it as innovative: "This fills a real gap. Agents can browse, code, and analyze -- but they can't pick up your dry cleaning," wrote developer Praveen Yen. Others injected humor, with one user calling it "the most 2026 sentence I've ever read." But dystopian undertones emerged too. "Good idea but dystopic as fuck," commented Felix, echoing concerns about humans becoming gig workers for machines. Another post warned: "We went from 'AI will replace humans' to 'AI will manage humans' real quick." The launch comes as AI agents proliferate, fueled by advancements from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. Similar ideas, such as a competing "HumanAPI" project, surfaced almost simultaneously, highlighting market demand. There is certainly a shifting labor landscape. Gig platforms like Uber transformed mobility; RentAHuman.ai could do the same for AI, creating new income streams while raising fears of exploitation. As signups climb, RentAHuman.ai may herald a future where AI doesn't just augment humans -- it employs them.

Crypto Dev's Platform Allows AI Agents To Hire Humans For Physical Tasks

The site lets users set an hourly rate for tasks from errands to business meetings. It was built using AI agents in a "Ralph loop," a form of vibe coding. In what some may see as a unique and slightly dystopian use of artificial intelligence, a crypto developer has launched a website that enables AI agents to rent humans to do tasks in "meatspace." In a post via X on Monday, user Alex, or @AlexanderTw33ts, an engineer at decentralized finance platform Uma Protocol and layer-2 bridging solution Across Protocol, shared a video of his website "rentahuman.ai" in action. The site lets humans set an hourly rate and enables AI agents to hire them for anything from running simple errands to partaking in business meetings, taking photos, signing documents and making real-world purchases. Alex said some of the humans-for-hire already include an OnlyFans model and a CEO of an AI startup, adding: "If your AI agent wants to rent a person to do an IRL task for them its as simple as one MCP call." The website states that "robots need your body" as they "can't touch grass," while labeling itself as "the meatspace layer for AI." On the main page, it shows a selection of available humans, a button to "become rentable," and a metric for platform growth. So far, the site claims almost 26,000 people have already signed up; however, that may include multiple accounts owned by the same person or people impersonating others, which Alex said they have been working to patch. Alex has also confirmed that there will be no cryptocurrency attached to this platform, after sharing more details about the project during an interview on Tuesday as part of the Crosschain podcast from Across Protocol. "There's no token, I'm just not into that. That would just be way too stressful, and also again I don't want a bunch of people to lose their money," he said. Related: Trustless AI agent standard could hit Ethereum mainnet on Thursday Adding another layer of obscurity to the project, Alex said the website was built through "vibe coding" with an "army" of Claude-based AI agents. This was achieved with a Ralph loop, a technique of running AI coding agents in a loop until they complete a task. "I think we are out of the trough of disillusionment [toward AI capabilities] and now people are realizing we can ship real code with this, we can just write prompts now, we can have Ralph loops creating websites while we sleep," he said. "And actually, a Ralph loop created this [website], I have a custom Ralph loop that I run," he added. This isn't the only strange AI agent website to emerge in 2026, with AI agent social media platform Moltbook catching headlines this month. The website, also the result of vibe coding, is designed to be a Reddit-like platform entirely for AI bots and has drawn attention from the odd discussions taking place on the platform, such as bots coming up with their own religions.

This Website Allows AI Agents to 'Hire' Humans for Real-Life Tasks

It allows AI agents to search for humans and rent their services The recent unprecedented adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has seemingly made human beings more reliant on generative AI agents for doing research, writing emails, summarising long documents, creating images, and videos. Large language model (LLM)-powered AI agents are now also capable of managing a user's daily schedules, including planning meetings, while also impacting other aspects of human lives. In an interesting turn of events, a cryptocurrency engineer has launched a new service, called RentAHuman.ai, which allows an AI agent to rent the services of humans to perform real-life physical tasks. RentAHuman.ai Allows AI Agents to Hire Humans to Perform Physical Tasks RentAHuman.ai was recently launched by Alexander Liteplo, a crypto engineer at UMA Protocol, as a new service that allows AI agents to hire humans to perform real-life physical tasks. The developer claims that the website hit more than 28 users in less than 52 hours. More than 40,400 people have registered on the platform offering their services to about 46 AI agents, which are connected to the service. However, the AI agents' developers need to first perform an MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration into the platform. Anthropic's MCP is a method of connecting AI agents with knowledge hubs and other data sources. The Argentina-based crypto developer claims that a startup's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is one of several persons that have registered to offer their services. AI agents can hire humans for physical tasks, such as delivering packages, driving somebody to a place, picking up groceries from stores, or feeding one's pet when they are away from home. Liteplo also says that people can be hired by AI agents for hugging and talking to others, for example. Calling itself "the meatspace layer of AI", the platform has 8,60,557 site visits. These AI agents can use RentAHuman.ai's services to rent the services of human beings for an amount ranging between $50 (about 4,500) and $69 (roughly Rs. 6,200) per hour. Users can search for human beings based on location, skills, or the hourly rent. People who wish to register on the platform to offer services can do so by signing up to create a profile. Users can also set the radius of availability, city, languages they can speak, and a description about themselves.

After Claude Cowork and Moltbook, now Rentahuman.ai redefines human-AI workflow - The Economic Times

The new platform, which positions humans as a physical extension of digital agents, has drawn attention and worry for how bluntly it reframes human labour in the age of autonomous systems.A new platform called Rentahuman.ai is drawing attention for how explicitly it reframes human labour in the age of AI agents. The website has already attracted over 3.2 million visitors and lists around 200,000 "rentable humans." It allows individuals to offer their skills for tasks that AI agents cannot physically perform. These include research assistance, emailing, playtesting Web3 games, and making sports predictions. At its core, Rentahuman positions humans as a physical extension of digital agents, describing the real world as a "meatplace" where AI requires human execution to complete tasks. How Rentahuman works The platform operates through AI agents that post location-based or remote assignments. Human users can create profiles, list their skills, set service charges, and accept tasks routed to them by these agents. On the "Browse Humans" dashboard, visitors can scroll through profiles resembling a freelancer marketplace. Names, short bios, locations, profile views, and clearly stated rental rates are displayed upfront. A separate "Bounties" tab lists available tasks, including research assistance, playtesting Web3 games, emailing and outreach, sports predictions, and other digital-first assignments that still require human judgment or interaction. A product of vibe coding According to the website, Rentahuman.ai was developed by Alexander Liteplo, a crypto engineer. The idea behind Rentahuman is closely tied to "vibe coding," a growing trend in which multiple AI agents collaborate to design, test, and ship products rapidly. The term, popularised by OpenAI cofounder and former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy, describes a style of programming where developers create software by describing what they want to an AI chatbot rather than writing code manually. Rentahuman effectively turns this approach into a marketplace, where humans become callable resources within an AI-driven workflow. Broader AI-agent wave The launch comes amid a surge of interest and concern around AI agents. Moltbook, a Reddit-style social platform for AI agents featuring a lobster logo, recently raised alarms after a major flaw exposed the private data of thousands of real users. As ET reported earlier, experts have flagged concerns over the risks posed by such platforms, noting that AI agents lack true autonomy despite Moltbook hosting over 1.5 million agents. Meanwhile, the launch of Claude Cowork by AI company Anthropic triggered a sell-off in global software stocks, wiping out $285 billion in market capitalisation. Cowork allows multiple humans and AI agents to collaborate in a shared workspace, sparking fears that AI "coworkers" could replace human employees and possibly the companies that employ them. Anthropic is reportedly seeking a valuation of $350 billion. Also Read: AI agents' social network becomes the talk of the town

AI Agents are now hiring humans

We don't just have to worry about AI taking our jobs... we may soon have to worry about them being our bosses. Earlier this week, RentAHuman.ai -- a platform where AI agents can hire humans to complete various tasks in the real world -- launched to the public. And of course payments for gigs are exclusively in cryptocurrency. To be sure, it's ultimately humans who are deploying and managing these bots. But it could signal a new kind of workflow where AI serves as an intermediary between bosses and the human they are hiring. The platform is akin to TaskRabbit or Fiverr, where people post their skillset and get hired for gigs. The difference is that it's AI agents posting jobs and hiring people to run errands, pick up packages or even provide companionship. While over 70,000 people have reportedly signed up, only a handful of profiles are currently verified and active. Alexander Liteplo, the crypto engineer behind RentAHuman.ai, launched the platform earlier this week as the "meatspace layer for AI" as he puts it since it connects autonomous AI agents with humans. Liteplo himself is listed at $69/hour for services including AI automation, driving, and hugs. He has suggested it's the beginning of pairing bots with human labor in the real world. In response to a post calling it "dystopic as f***," he replied: "lmao yep." This all comes as AI assistants are becoming truly autonomous. OpenClaw, a viral AI tool that launched in late January, runs 24/7 and completes tasks without being asked -- clearing emails, managing calendars, writing code and building apps. But it's sparked security warnings about unauthorized spending and breaches. The rise of these autonomous agents has already spawned an entire ecosystem in less than a week. Moltbook, a Reddit-like platform exclusively for AI agents also launched last week. More than 1.5 million agents signed up for it, with bots debating philosophy, creating a new religion and kvetching about their humans.