AI safety starts with people

Every Conversation Tells a Story.

Artificial Intelligence is the most profound technological shift in human history, already reshaping how we learn, work, and navigate our lives. At LifeTrade, we take a membership‑first approach: we pay a fair wage for members to share their lived experiences, preferences, and real decision-making to help create safer, more aligned AI.

The Gap We're Filling

AI is trained on massive datasets, but almost none of it captures how real decisions get made—the tradeoffs we weigh, the context that shapes our choices, the reasoning behind the answer. LifeTrade exists to help fill that gap. We believe this work can play a small but important role in AI safety, and we pay people fairly to share the one thing that's missing—how they actually think.

For AI Partners

How LifeTrade Works

Simple, flexible, on your terms. Call when it works for you—morning commute, lunch break, evening walk.

Step 1: Call in

Once you're a member, you call a secure LifeTrade number from your phone. We built this on mobile so you can participate anywhere—no desk, no app to download, 100% verifiable and secure.

Step 2: Talk with an AI agent

A friendly AI voice agent takes you through a conversation about a real decision—the options you're weighing, what matters most to you, how you think through tradeoffs.

Step 3: Get paid immediately

You earn $20 an hour, paid by the minute via Venmo the moment your call ends. Most conversations last 15-20 minutes.

Join Our Waitlist

We believe meaningful work deserves meaningful respect. That's why we onboard members in small groups—so every person who joins LifeTrade receives real support and gets treated like the partner they are, not just a data source. Your lived experience, your judgment, your reasoning—these aren't commodities. They're the foundation of safer AI. We're selective about growth because we're committed to doing this right: fair pay, full transparency, genuine partnership.

Join the waitlist and you'll be invited to start scheduling conversations as soon as a spot opens.

Why This Matters

Three of the world's leading AI researchers—all Nobel and Turing Award winners—warn that AI alignment is the most urgent challenge of our time:

“AI should never assume it knows what humans want—it should remain uncertain and continually learn from behavior.”

Stuart Russell

Berkeley AI Risk Speaker Series, October 2025

“We need to invest massively on research to understand how we can get these AI agents to behave safely. All of the scientific evidence in the last few months point to that.”

Yoshua Bengio

TED2025 talk (recorded April 8, 2025)

“It’s progressed even faster than I thought. It’s got better at reasoning and also at deceiving people.”

Geoffrey Hinton

CNN State of the Union, December 29, 2025

Frequently Asked Questions

It's membership-based contribution work. You're not an employee. You call in when it works for you, share your reasoning, and get paid immediately.

You earn $20/hour, paid by the minute. Most calls last 15-20 minutes.

We're currently onboarding members from diverse backgrounds. Space is limited as we scale responsibly. Join the waitlist to be notified when we're accepting new members.

Conversations are encrypted and fully anonymized. AI labs access your reasoning patterns, not your personal identity. We never share identifiable information.

You can stop anytime. No contract. No commitment.