Rent A Human (wired.com)

“People would love to have a clanker as their boss.” –Patricia Tani, cofounder

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-agent-rentahuman-bots-hire-humans/

Now we have a marketplace of half a million humans who have signed up, ready to be hired by an AI for tasks. Like Task Rabbit or Mechanical Turk, except your boss is an AI. Huh.

“What would be super cool is before the singularity happens and we have AI take off, we have a moment and appreciate there’s so much that humans can do that AI can’t,” he says. The robots might be renting us—but we’re living in their head rent free. “You need us, motherfuckers. Humans are special.” –Alexander Liteplo, cofounder

Author: CT Lin

CMIO, UCHealth (Colorado); Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine

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