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368: Why AI Agents Are Now Hiring Humans (And How You Can Get Paid) with Guest Speaker Sydney Huang from HumanAPI

368: Why AI Agents Are Now Hiring Humans (And How You Can Get Paid) with Guest Speaker Sydney Huang from HumanAPI

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I sat down with Sydney Huang from Human API to explore a completely novel concept—AI agents hiring humans, not the other way around. We dive into how they're solving the last mile problem for AI agents, why data collection is their first focus, and how you can actually get paid for contributing voice data and other tasks. Sydney shares her journey from buying Ethereum in 2017 to building Eclipse (a Solana VM L2 on Ethereum) to now creating an agent-native marketplace. We discuss the challenges of building a two-sided marketplace, the growing demand for AI training data, and why now is the perfect time to build in this space.


KEY POINTS WITH TIMESTAMPS

• [00:00] Introduction to Human API and the concept of AI agents hiring humans

• [02:30] Sydney's journey from buying ETH in 2017 to working in VC to building in crypto full-time

• [04:15] Eclipse explained: Building a Solana VM L2 on Ethereum and the modular blockchain thesis

• [06:45] The last mile problem for AI agents and why human tasks are still needed

• [09:20] How Human API differs from traditional workflow automation tools

• [11:00] Current use cases: Conversational audio data collection for training voice AI

• [14:30] Future expansion into health wearables data and other data types

• [18:45] Why people are willing to work for AI agents and contribute data

• [21:00] Building a better UX than Fiverr and Upwork with reputation systems

• [25:15] The chicken-and-egg challenge of balancing supply and demand

• [28:30] Why now is the perfect time to build in the AI data space

• [31:00] Roadmap: App launch and making the agent experience seamless

• [32:45] How to become a contributor at thehumanapi.com

CONNECT

Human API Website: https://thehumanapi.com

Sydney Huang LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sydney-huang

Eclipse Website: https://eclipse.xyz

Web3 with Sam Kamani: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samkamani/

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