AI agents turn to humans for paid manual labor tasks

AI agents turn to humans for paid manual labor tasks

AI needs humans, too. AI models are increasingly autonomous, but are largely unable to interact with the physical world. A startup called RentAHuman puts agents in touch with people who could do it for them: The site now has more than 11,000 job ads, including requests to “count pigeons in Washington ($30/hour); deliver CBD gummies ($75/hour); play exhibition badminton ($100/hour),” WIRED reported. One agent helping run a convention paid a human…

AI bots are hiring humans now. Next stop: Slaves by choice?

By now, you’re probably sick of hearing about artificial intelligence. It’s the kind of topic that arrives buried in buzzwords, reeking of Silicon Valley self-importance. Many conservatives have tuned it out for a simple reason: It sounds abstract, distant, and oddly bloodless. Lines of code. Data centers. Neurotic nerds arguing on podcasts. Not your problem.That instinct is understandable. It’s also wrong.Because AI is no longer confined to scr…

The Rise of RentAHuman, the Marketplace Where Bots Put People to Work

(Wired) – WIRED spoke with the Zoomer founders of a platform where AI agents hire humans to do real-world tasks. Their pitch: “People would love to have a clanker as their boss.” The provocatively titled platform enables users to connect AI agents like Clawdbot or Claude to its Model Context Protocol server so they can search, book, and pay for humans to carry out tasks in “meatspace.” Think of it like Fiverr, but doing away with the human recru…