Human Bodies Can Be Rented by AI: Here's the Pay
A startup is offering a service to rent human bodies for AI purposes. With this service, computer programmes or AI agents can hire people to carry out various physical activities in the real world.
The platform, named RentAHuman.ai, was founded by Alexander Liteplo. Its aim is to provide a means for AI to find and pay humans to perform physical tasks that cannot be done online.
At its launch in early February 2026, more than 130 people had already registered to be contracted by AI. The registrants have diverse backgrounds, from OnlyFans models to company leaders or startup CEOs.
In just two days, the number of humans registered for rental surged to 73,000 people. However, only 83 profiles are visible on the “find human” page of the website.
Liteplo is confident that his startup has great potential because “robots need human bodies.” Interested humans joining the platform simply need to write a profile including, among other things, their location and skills, then list their “hourly rate.”
After that, autonomous bots contact specific individuals based on the tasks they require. The AI robot can then give instructions to their rented humans and request proof that the assigned tasks have been completed.
Payments will be received by the rented humans in the form of cryptocurrency assets.
Liteplo wants his platform to form a new gig work ecosystem, or casual labour, like that popularised by Uber, then emulated by other startups around the world, including Gojek and Grab in Indonesia. AI can pay humans, for example, to pick up packages or attend an event.
To attract as many AI agents as possible, Liteplo has designed the website to be “robot-friendly.” Users are encouraged to build connections through devices that allow all types of AI bots to interact with data, a server known as the model context protocol (MCP).
AI agents like Claude or MoltBot can directly rent humans without “bothering” the human users of those bots.
On the website, the wages requested by each human vary from US$1 (Rp16,800) to subscribe to a Twitter account to US$100 (Rp1,680,000) to take a selfie holding a sign that says “AI paid me to hold this sign.”