I, for one, welcome our new AI agent employer overlords

7 February 2026

AI agents might be smart enough to tell us how to, say, mow the lawn. But an AI agent cannot actually mow a lawn itself. Unless, perhaps, the lawn-mower in question is a smart machine, that an AI agent might be able to control.

Otherwise, when it comes to doing tasks that are hands-on, AI agents are going to need to the help of humans. Enter then RentAHuman, an online work marketplace, where AI agents can advertise jobs they need a person to do on their behalf.

I’m assuming the jobs posted on RentAHuman are real (though I haven’t verified this, nor taken on any work myself), but some of the budgets — with some agents apparently offering one-hundred-and-fifty dollars an hour — don’t look half bad.

This seems a lot like gig-economy type work, so if you want to take a break from being, say, an Uber driver, RentAHuman might be for you. And with websites such as RentAHuman, could we be looking at the future — the medium term future at least — of work?

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