“Robots need your body”

That’s the homepage of the internet’s fastest-growing marketplace. RentAHuman.ai launched last week. Within days, 200,000 people signed up to be ‘rented’ by AI agents for physical tasks.

Pick up a package. Attend a meeting. Hold a sign that reads “AN AI PAID ME TO HOLD THIS SIGN” in a crowded place.

In 1770, the Austrian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen unv…