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.
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At Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) business behind the Claude co-working bot, staff are increasingly uneasy about the power of their own creation.
In response to an internal survey in December, one Anthropic employee frets: “In the long term, I think AI will end up doing everything and make me and many others irrelevant.”
Another says: “It kind of feels like I’m coming to work every day to put myself out of a job.”
The impact of AI on jobs has been fiercely debated by tech leaders since the advent of ChatGPT three years ago.
In one camp, there are AI evangelicals who promise a golden age of productivity, where a booming economy means there is enough work for everyone – human and AI alike.
In the other, there are the doom-mongers warning that the world is on the edge of a jobs apocalypse.
Such fears have been brought into focus in recent days after Anthropic, a $350bn (£256bn) Silicon Valley AI lab, revealed a new feature for Claude that has sent tremors through global stock markets.