Sep 18, 2026 · 16 min · 10 segments
For years the question was whether AI would take our jobs. Now there's a site called RentAHuman.ai where AI agents hire real people to do the things they can't, with the tagline "robots need your…
Roshan KanesanHost
Frankie LimHost
up though frankie let's jump into uh why why the robots still need us right and how they may be our bosses um as we mentioned so this was something that came up in actually the the morning run whatsapp chat group right this Rent a human.ai website because that shows that AI agents are now hiring humans or have been hiring humans to help out with certain things that AI can't do, but real people still can.
I mean, we've seen a lot of robotics really do quite well, but that messaging is really not especially reassuring to read in 2026.
But what it can't do is utilize its arms and legs that people are building very well just right.
So if an AI agent needs somebody to... take a photograph somewhere, inspect a shop, attend an event, test a product or pick something up, basically anything involving the physical world, it can hire a human to do it.
If it needs someone to turun padang effectively, it'll hire a person to do it.
And it reminds me a lot of those gig economy platforms, right? Like Fiverr, right? You can hire someone to do something in another country for you.
Do you remember, we always talk about disruption of work, right? You know, when AI came about, we are worried about AI taking over our jobs.
I see the next wave as, then you have all these advanced robotics and whatnot, and those could potentially also take away these kind of jobs going forward.
up though frankie let's jump into uh why why the robots still need us right and how they may be our bosses um as we mentioned so this was something that came up in actually the the morning run whatsapp chat group right this Rent a human.ai website because that shows that AI agents are now hiring humans or have been hiring humans to help out with certain things that AI can't do, but real people still can.
I mean, we've seen a lot of robotics really do quite well, but that messaging is really not especially reassuring to read in 2026.
But what it can't do is utilize its arms and legs that people are building very well just right.
So if an AI agent needs somebody to... take a photograph somewhere, inspect a shop, attend an event, test a product or pick something up, basically anything involving the physical world, it can hire a human to do it.
If it needs someone to turun padang effectively, it'll hire a person to do it.
And it reminds me a lot of those gig economy platforms, right? Like Fiverr, right? You can hire someone to do something in another country for you.
Do you remember, we always talk about disruption of work, right? You know, when AI came about, we are worried about AI taking over our jobs.
I see the next wave as, then you have all these advanced robotics and whatnot, and those could potentially also take away these kind of jobs going forward.
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