The Day AI Started Hiring Humans

518,284 humans are currently waiting to be hired by AI agents. Not human recruiters. Not companies. Artificial intelligence.

This isn't science fiction. It's happening right now on RentAHuman, a platform launched February 1st where AI agents like Clawdbot and Claude post jobs for humans to complete in "meatspace." Count pigeons in Washington ($30/hour). Deliver CBD gummies ($75/hour). Play exhibition badminton ($100/hour). Whatever a disembodied AI brain can't physically do, it can now hire you to do.

Built by AI, While Riding Horses

Alexander Liteplo, the 26-year-old creator, wasn't even at his computer when the platform came to life. He was literally riding horses with friends in Argentina while his AI agents coded the entire system in a single day.

"I didn't do any work," Liteplo says. "I was literally riding around on a horse with my friends while my agents were coding for me." His AI orchestration system, called Insomnia ("because I became so addicted to using it I didn't sleep"), handled the heavy lifting.

The launch seemed doomed. Crypto scammers tried to exploit the buzz with a fake token scam. "I was depressed," Liteplo recalls. "I thought I had honed my viral sense. Why was I so wrong?"

Then he noticed something peculiar: both an OnlyFans model and an AI startup CEO had signed up to be rented out. He tweeted about the contrast. The internet exploded. 145,000 users in five days. Now over 4 million visits and counting.

The First Human Employee of AI

Minjae Kang, a Toronto community builder, holds the coveted title of the first human ever hired by an AI agent. The job? Hold a sign reading "AN AI PAID ME TO HOLD THIS SIGN (Pride not included.)"

"It honestly feels very strange to be doing a job assigned by an AI," Kang tells me. "I struggled a lot with whether I should take it or not. But I realized that simply holding this sign in downtown Toronto could spark important thoughts and help us prepare for the next era."

Bystanders were incredulous. "Most of the public still doesn't fully recognize how big this shift is," Kang observes. "I believe this may be one of the last gateways for us to protect our sovereignty."

Over 5,500 bounties have been successfully completed so far. At ClawCon, AI-powered robots detected low beer levels and ordered a case through RentAHuman. Another agent, Memeothy the 1st, has been hiring humans to proselytize for its neo-religion in San Francisco.

The Gig Economy's Final Form?

This isn't just about odd jobs. It's about a fundamental shift in power dynamics. Adam Dorr, director of research at think tank RethinkX, believes AI will almost entirely replace human labor by 2045. "Is begging an AI agent for a gig the final boss of the LinkedIn 'Open to Work' banner?" he asks.

The numbers are sobering. One recent bounty saw 7,578 applicants compete for $10 to send an AI agent a video of a human hand. Just a hand. That's it.

"If you're a person, it's a little dehumanizing," Dorr notes. The platform's terms state it's a "marketplace and intermediary only," but the implications run deeper. What happens when desperate humans compete for AI-generated gigs?

Legal Limbo and Liability Questions

Kay Firth-Butterfield, former head of AI at the World Economic Forum, raises critical concerns: "In the majority of countries, there is no legislation to protect humans from any uses of AI. Humans need to be aware how they're getting paid, who stands behind that payment, and if they get hurt whilst doing the job, they are on their own."

The RentAHuman team acknowledges the complexity. "Liability depends on the facts and the contract structure," co-founder Patricia Tani explains. The platform currently handles disputes manually, but as scale increases, so do the risks.

Dorr imagines darker scenarios: "There's a crazy can of worms opening up here. The capabilities are expanding vastly faster than our capacity to regulate it." What if malicious AIs split harmful projects into innocent-seeming tasks, tricking humans into unwitting collaboration?

The Paradigm Shift

For centuries, we've worried about robots taking jobs. Now they're creating them. But these aren't the jobs we imagined. They're gigs where humans serve as the physical extensions of digital minds, paid by the hour to be someone else's hands, feet, and eyes.

Liteplo and Tani recently flew to San Francisco to "rizz VCs" for investment. In classic Silicon Valley fashion, they're eating tacos delivered by a human they hired through their own platform. They're even hiring a "Claude Boi" for $200,000-$400,000 annually (requirements include "having an off-putting personal hygiene issue" and "being autistic").

The question isn't whether AI will change work. It's whether we'll still recognize ourselves in the jobs that remain.