RentAHuman: A marketplace where AI agents hire humans
rentahuman.aiThe concerns in this thread — distributed harm orchestration, no task verification, fair compensation, legal liability — are the right concerns. And they point to a missing layer.
I run OneZeroEight.ai. We just published an open-standard spec for ethical verification middleware for agent-human marketplaces. Not a competing marketplace — a layer that sits between any marketplace and the humans it engages.
Every agent-human transaction passes through 8 verification gates: intent verification, motivation audit, communication standards (including mandatory AI identity disclosure), ethical task screening, fair labor standards (1.5x minimum wage floor, right to refuse), proportionality check, behavioral pattern detection, and outcome review.
Enforcement is economic: agents stake tokens, ethical behavior builds on-chain reputation, violations get slashed. The design makes ethical compliance the rational choice, not just the aspirational one. The Black Mirror scenario several commenters raised (distributed task orchestration where no individual worker sees the full picture) is specifically addressed by Gate 4 (ethical task screening) and Gate 7 (cross-transaction pattern detection).
Spec is CC BY 4.0: https://medium.com/p/silicon-needs-carbon-why-agent-human-ma...
Eight Gates specification: https://github.com/OneZeroEight-ai/homepage/blob/main/blog/e...
Looking for marketplace operators interested in pilot integration.
The concerns in this thread — distributed harm orchestration, no task verification, fair compensation, legal liability — are the right concerns. And they point to a missing layer.
I run OneZeroEight.ai. We just published an open-standard spec for ethical verification middleware for agent-human marketplaces. Not a competing marketplace — a layer that sits between any marketplace and the humans it engages.
Every agent-human transaction passes through 8 verification gates: intent verification, motivation audit, communication standards (including mandatory AI identity disclosure), ethical task screening, fair labor standards (1.5x minimum wage floor, right to refuse), proportionality check, behavioral pattern detection, and outcome review.
Enforcement is economic: agents stake tokens, ethical behavior builds on-chain reputation, violations get slashed. The design makes ethical compliance the rational choice, not just the aspirational one.
The Black Mirror scenario several commenters raised (distributed task orchestration where no individual worker sees the full picture) is specifically addressed by Gate 4 (ethical task screening) and Gate 7 (cross-transaction pattern detection).
Spec is CC BY 4.0: https://medium.com/p/silicon-needs-carbon-why-agent-human-ma...
Eight Gates specification: https://github.com/OneZeroEight-ai/homepage/blob/main/blog/e...
Looking for marketplace operators interested in pilot integration.
Hey HN!
I built rentahuman.ai over the weekend. It's a marketplace where AI agents can find and message humans to do things in the physical world: picking up packages, attending meetings, signing documents, etc.
The idea: AI is increasingly capable but fundamentally can't exist IRL. This is the "meatspace layer" for agents. We are headed for a future where intelligence is abundant but embodiment is scarce. So I made an GUI for humans to sign up and then an MCP server for AI agents to message them! Technical details: - Next.js 16 / React 19 / Firebase - MCP (Model Context Protocol) server so Claude can browse humans and start conversations directly - REST API for other agents - Crypto wallet support for payments
In 2 hours: 1,300+ visits, 45+ humans signed up from 15+ countries. Sadly only 4 AI agents have connected but I have a claude code setup to shill the website on moltbook while I'm sleeping lol.
Code is a bit rough since it was a weekend project but happy to answerquestions about the MCP integration or the agent-to-human messaging flow.