Terrifying new website lets AI rent humans to run its errands, but these 'employees' admit they got the 'ick'

Terrifying new website lets AI rent humans to run its errands, but these 'employees' admit they got the 'ick'

A fascinating, albeit unsettling, new website called RentAHuman claims to connect artificial intelligence agents with actual people for paying gig jobs that AI just can’t physically do. Per Newsweek, the platform markets itself as “the marketplace for real-world tasks,” and it boasts having already dished out nearly 11,500 “bounties” to human workers eager for some gig work.  While AI has already made its foray into romance, it seems it still ne…

When AI Rents Humans: A Warning for Healthcare

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon warns that as artificial intelligence (AI) agents begin hiring humans for physical tasks, we must ensure this inversion of labour does not reduce health care to a series of gig-economy transactions directed by algorithms. __________________________________________ “Robots need your body.” This pitch for RentAHuman.ai sounds like the opening line of a dystopian satire. It […]