Amazon has announced that it will shut down its crowdsourced work platform Mechanical Truk, effective September 30, 2026, as reported by CNBC. Launched in the year 2025, the service was described by founder Jeff Bezos has ‘artificial artificial intelligence’, outsourcing simple digital tasks to humans that computers struggled to complete.

Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for computers.

Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a service matching workers with simple digital jobs for them to do and be paid for