By Reece Rogers
Publication Date: 2026-02-12 11:00:00
I’m not upstairs I do a few gigs to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked at snack food pop-ups at a grocery store, run the cash register for random merchandise stands, and even sold my own plasma for $35 a vial.
When I saw RentAHuman, a new website where AI agents hire people to perform physical labor on behalf of the virtual bots in the real world, I was curious to see how these AI overlords would compare to my previous experiences with the gig economy.
Launched in early February, RentAHuman was developed by software developer Alexander Liteplo and his co-founder Patricia Tani. The site looks like a basic version of other popular freelance sites like Fiverr and UpWork.
The site’s homepage states that these bots require your physical body to complete tasks, and that the people behind these autonomous agents are willing to pay for it. “AI can’t touch grass. You can. Get paid when agents need someone in the real world,” it says. Looking at RentAHuman’s design, it’s the type of website…