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

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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."

Save this story Save this story For centuries, people have catastrophized about robots taking away jobs . On February 1, the paradigm shifted: bots are creating jobs. Now, 518,284 humans—and rapidly counting—are offering their labor to AI agents on a new online marketplace called RentAHuman . There are classifieds to count pigeons in Washington ($30/hour); deliver CBD gummies ($75/hour); play exhibition badminton ($100/hour); and anything else you could possibly imagine that a disembodied agent couldn’t do. The provocatively titled platform enables users to connect AI agents like Clawdbot or C

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