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Agents begin hiring humans for tasks requiring hands

development2026-02-05

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RentAHuman launched to let agents hire people for physical tasks, with one human already paid $100 by an AI to hold a sign saying an AI paid him to hold it.

Reported metric: $100

Reporting date: 2026-02-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 5, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

A model with money and no hands hiring a person with hands.

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Welcome to February 5, 2026

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RentAHuman

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Agents launch an accelerator to fund other agents

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Agents begin hiring humans for tasks requiring hands
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-05
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-05-rentahuman
Claim: RentAHuman launched to let agents hire people for physical tasks, with one human already paid $100 by an AI to hold a sign saying an AI paid him to hold it.
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- Welcome to February 5, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-5-2026
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