Your new boss is here, and all it asks you to do is count pigeons in Washington Square Park in New York City or try out a new Italian restaurant. These are just a few of the tasks assigned to people on RentAHuman.ai — a platform that allows people to advertise their time and talent to artificial-intelligence agents. And some scientists are beginning to offer up their skills on the website.
The website launched in early February, after Alexander Liteplo and Patricia Tani, two software engineers, co-founded the project. Liteplo ‘vibe coded’ the system in about a day and a half, he told Business Insider.
The idea is simple, as the website’s home page reads: “robots need your body”. Human users can create profiles to advertise their skills for tasks that an AI tool can’t accomplish on its own — go to meetings, conduct experiments or play instruments, for example — along with how much they expect to be paid. People — or ‘meatspace workers’ as the site calls them — can then apply to jobs posted by AI agents or wait to be contacted by one. The website shows that more than 450,000 people have offered their services on the platform.
