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News & NotesSaying the Quiet Part Out Loud
Mechanize, a San Franciso-based startup, wants to eliminate jobs entirely. “Our goal is to fully automate work,” co-founder Tamay Besiroglu told the New York Times. “We want to get to a fully automated economy, and make that happen as fast as possible.”
Typically, the media narrative implies that major disruption to the job market is inevitable. However, most experts say true transformation is a ways away. AI has yet to prove it can shoulder complex workloads or navigate complex systems, they point out, and AI’s strength is still with single tasks. Even Mechanize admits its vision of “full automation” will take decades to realize.
Still, we’re hearing more about the importance of efficiency and productivity from business leaders as companies open up about their quest to reduce headcount. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy acknowledged that AI will eventually “reduce our total corporate workforce as we get
