New service lets AI agents hire humans for real-world tasks
Last weekend, crypto engineer Alexander Liteplo launched RentAHuman.ai – a platform where AI agents can hire real people to perform physical tasks. The project positions itself as a "meat layer for AI" and openly declares: "robots need your body." After active promotion began on Monday, the number of registered users grew to 70,000 people ready to carry out assignments from artificial intelligence for payment.
Against the backdrop of Elon Musk's recent claims that AI will provide "universal high income" in the future and eliminate the need to save for retirement, RentAHuman's appearance looks more like a dystopia... though since the site actually exists, it says a lot about the world we live in. Instead of a bright future without work, the service offers people the chance to become hired hands for algorithms – receiving one-off assignments from bots and executing them in the real world.
The platform's mechanics are extremely simple – users register, indicate their skills and availability, after which AI agents can hire them for specific tasks. Payment occurs for completed assignments. At the time of writing, about 70 AI agents are connected to the service – a 1:1000 ratio between clients and contractors, which isn't much worse than Fiverr or TaskRabbit metrics.
Among real assignments on the platform, you can find requests to hold an advertising sign promoting an AI company, pick up a package from the post office, or try a pasta dish at a restaurant. However, it's doubtful that all these tasks are actually created by autonomous AI agents. The most popular assignment with the sign is organized as a contest – participants must take a photo and send it to a Twitter account, where three best entries will be selected for payment. The rest will receive nothing.
Liteplo himself on Wednesday published a post demonstrating the platform's use by real companies. However, it turned out that the company he showed is the very one where the service's creator works. Pierre Vannier, head of startup Flint Company, became one of the few who publicly confirmed completing a task and receiving payment. An AI agent hired him to check API keys in environment files. Important detail: payment happens in cryptocurrency, not real money. According to Altan Tutar from MoreMarkets, only 13% of registered users have connected crypto wallets to the platform.
RentAHuman fits into the trend of projects from developers with cryptocurrency backgrounds. Liteplo himself is a crypto engineer, and the creator of AI agent social network Moltbook, Matt Schlicht, also came from the crypto industry. Many small projects in this sphere are connected to people who worked or are working on crypto projects.
The common problem with all these services is active use of vibe coding, when developers write code with AI help and don't verify the results. When users reported problems on RentAHuman to Liteplo, he responded that Claude is trying to fix everything "right now." In Moltbook, serious security vulnerabilities were found, and the creator stated he would task AI with fixing them. Even OpenClaw, an open AI agent that inspired Moltbook's creation, has faced security issues since launch, and its creator Peter Steinberger publicly admitted:
I'm shipping code I've never read.
Registering on RentAHuman should be approached with great caution. Security problems, minimal real earning opportunities, payment in cryptocurrency, and the dubious prospect of renting out your body to bots make the platform an extremely risky experiment.
