DoorDash is now letting its drivers train AI on the side
By Angela Yang
Published on March 20, 2026.
DoorDash has launched a standalone app for couriers, Tasks, allowing its 8 million U.S. gig workers to record themselves performing tasks and earn money to train AI-powered robots. The app allows couriers to perform everyday tasks such as folding clothes, handwashing dishes, and making a bed, with each task offering a payment sum based on effort and complexity. The data will then be used to help AI and robotics models better understand the physical world. The company believes this will be a significant step forward for building the frontier of physical intelligence. Additional tasks will also be added within the regular Dasher app, which includes checking a restaurant's holiday hours, taking photos of a tricky drop-off location, or assisting an autonomous vehicle. This is part of a growing ecosystem of gigs that aim to farm AI training data from willing humans.
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