Ksenia Se (9 February 2026). 'The Meatspace Layer | When AI Agents Start Hiring Humans'
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3c9A4gBnCEg
Blurb: "AI agents are hiring humans now — not replacing them. From Amazon Mechanical Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk to RentAHuman.ai, humans have always been the hidden engine of AI. ... We discuss the 'embodiment problem,' the recursive loop of human-AI labor, and whether this model represents a new economic paradigm or a dystopian turn for the future of work" (Ksenia Se, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ksenia-se 9 February 2026). Related: Mechanical Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk More: Hannah Fry (1 May 2026). "Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we’ve ever built" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR5aOElvw Concept: "Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are small, specialised pieces of software that can make decisions and operate cooperatively or independently to achieve system objectives. Agentic AI refers to AI systems composed of agents that can behave and interact autonomously in order to achieve their objectives. ... Agentic systems, on the other hand, are given a set of capabilities and will then autonomously select which of those are best suited to achieve an objective - for example, fulfilling the order. This system may then look up the best price, consider competing prices, back order out-of-stock items, and offer different prices for different delivery schedules autonomously. This ability to use tools to solve problems is what makes agentic systems so powerful" (Government Digital Service, 2025). Bibliography: Rogers, R. (2026). 'I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups'. In WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/i-tried-rentahuman-ai-agents-hired-me-to-hype-their-ai-startups/ RentAHuman.ai. (2026, July 30). RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks. RentAHuman.Ai. https://rentahuman.ai/ Government Digital Service. (2025). 'AI insights: Agentic Ai (HTML)'. In GOV.UK. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-insights/ai-insights-agentic-ai-html
