Our tech reporter got a glimpse of a post-labor future at an event held by Mechanize, a San Francisco A.I. start-up that has an audacious goal of automating all jobs “as fast as possible.” nyti.ms/3Zo2oFp
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Except THEIR jobs, of course...
jun 11, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Good luck building houses.
jun 11, 2025, 6:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Do you profile decent human beings anymore?
jun 11, 2025, 4:43 pm • 5 0 • view
I hope you charged them for this advertising feature.
jun 11, 2025, 4:30 pm • 72 0 • view
Just noting for whoever and whatever parses the feedback that comes from comments: people don’t trust this newspaper anymore. We won’t pay for news we don’t trust. And that’s bad for you.
jun 11, 2025, 5:27 pm • 11 0 • view
Do they have a plan to put themselves out of a job or are they special
jun 12, 2025, 1:10 am • 4 0 • view
jul 20, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure would be nice to already have UBI in place.
jun 11, 2025, 9:01 pm • 7 2 • view
Nice ad campaign for the plagiarism machine.
jun 11, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
If all jobs are automated, there would be no more monetary economy. The People won't have money to spend on goods and services.
jun 11, 2025, 4:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Fuck these guys.
jun 13, 2025, 2:24 am • 0 0 • view
Hands down the easiest jobs at any company to replace with AI are CEO and board of directors. Funny how greed, in the form of short-term gains, is easy to code.
jun 11, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I can't anymore.
jun 11, 2025, 4:35 pm • 3 0 • view
They look like they all shop at the same prison guard casual outfitters
jun 11, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
...this is a REALLY bad thing in the modern world.
jun 11, 2025, 4:28 pm • 4 0 • view
But I also found their pitch strangely devoid of empathy for the people whose jobs they’re trying to replace, and unconcerned with whether society is ready for such profound change. THEY DON’T KNOW AND THEY DON’T CARE.
jun 11, 2025, 4:32 pm • 11 0 • view
And there won't be any need for a fashion industry with these slobs in charge.
jun 11, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
“The worst looking people you’ve ever seen want to destroy humanity for profit. Here’s a cover story on them.”
jun 11, 2025, 5:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Three clones from one Stanley Kubrick pubic hair?
jun 11, 2025, 4:31 pm • 10 0 • view
Let me know when AI can fix my car transmission, mow my lawn, or put a new roof on my house. A.I. is just a hyped fad to keep the stock market from crashing. But he jig is up and reality will return soon.
jun 11, 2025, 4:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Do the people who they put out of work get to eat them if they can’t find another job?
jun 11, 2025, 4:33 pm • 9 0 • view
AI can’t cook food a robot yes , but it’s got no soul.
jun 11, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm starting a company that uses AI to eliminate the jobs of people that are using AI to elimate jobs...
jun 12, 2025, 10:11 am • 2 0 • view
You should take down this post. Stupid and ridiculous. While democracy is burning. Nothing is more important. Certainly not more tech bro BS.
jun 11, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Stealing people's jobs is not a "post labor future"
jun 11, 2025, 4:50 pm • 3 0 • view
They should start with their own jobs if they like this idea so goddamn much
jun 23, 2025, 1:29 pm • 0 0 • view
The industrial revolution eliminated most (but not all) physical jobs. Computerization eliminated many (but not all) clerical jobs. AI will make much deeper inroads into clerical jobs, and start on those analyst / middle manager positions that were thought to require human judgement.
jun 11, 2025, 5:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Jobless people do not consume so AI companies will not win.
jun 11, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
They want to but their stuff still suck shit. Stop hyping up these scams
jun 11, 2025, 4:30 pm • 20 0 • view
Oh come on, these idiots are only trying to hype up their shitty company for investors, they have nothing which could actually replace large numbers of workers.
jun 11, 2025, 4:38 pm • 1 0 • view
If that's true then folks probably want to take the breath from their bodies
jun 23, 2025, 5:56 pm • 0 0 • view
They'd still need body guards, because all of these unemployed people will try and throw them out a window.
jun 11, 2025, 5:13 pm • 2 0 • view
"Mechanize has no novel policy proposals to help smooth the transition to an A.I.-driven economy, no brilliant ideas about expanding the social safety net or retraining workers for new jobs — only a goal of making the current jobs obsolete as quickly as possible." Booo, hisss
jun 11, 2025, 4:31 pm • 44 2 • view
i’m not even asking for a *novel* policy proposal. they can use the old ones. just do tax the rich + ubi!
jun 11, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
The article mentions this is what the founders think should/must happen. But if we consider AI automation the "problem" and UBI the "solution", it seems purely evil to hope someone else implements a solution to a problem you intend on creating.
jun 11, 2025, 6:23 pm • 3 0 • view
I was just thinking about this. It almost never comes up as a topic.
jun 11, 2025, 5:28 pm • 6 0 • view
@nytimes.com - SF Tech Bros lack basic human traits so they want to help their Ai brethren. There I fixed your headline for you.
jun 21, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
What will all of us "drones" do then - how about a luddite uprising & bloodbath against these incel techies?
jun 11, 2025, 4:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Or....and hear me out on this, you could NOT give these fucking ghouls media coverage!
jun 11, 2025, 4:53 pm • 4 0 • view
Good luck trying to sell stuff when no one has a job
jun 11, 2025, 4:39 pm • 1 0 • view
This is a great example of why I canceled my subscription. Why is anyone paying for this kind of junk PR?
jun 11, 2025, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
NYT openly advertising for obvious con artist's.
jun 11, 2025, 4:39 pm • 2 0 • view
By people who have never worked those jobs. Domain expertise is a thing these fucking assholes have no idea about. None.
jun 11, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Assholes.
jun 11, 2025, 4:28 pm • 34 0 • view
i agree wasting your life away being a slave is good!
jun 11, 2025, 5:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh no slavery or more like feudalism will be a defining feature of their planned future
jun 11, 2025, 6:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Imagine thinking theyre doing this to liberate us from labor
jun 23, 2025, 1:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Do you think these clowns give a shit what happens after you don't have a job?
jun 11, 2025, 6:39 pm • 7 0 • view
Oh yeah man, it's so much better to be arrested for the crime of being homeless and sent to an actual slave labour camp in el Salvador.
jun 11, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view
as opposed to wasting your life away being unemployed with no money? stop acting like those assholes want UBI
jun 11, 2025, 6:33 pm • 21 0 • view
lmaoo you really think ai is going to save you from that, you fucking idiot
jun 11, 2025, 7:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Jerks
jun 13, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
These dudes are naïve, thinking that if AI destroyed all jobs, it'd create "radical abundance" leading to UBI and higher living standards. Not a chance: Grifters and rent-seekers would find ways to capture the lion's share for themselves — and you know what they say about idle hands ....
jun 11, 2025, 5:00 pm • 4 0 • view
They don't actually believe in anything that helps society. Like "trickle down" economics, they are in on the scam. They are the grift.
jun 11, 2025, 9:04 pm • 3 0 • view
I know the old lady wants to appear neutral, but at some point we need to make the connection between the way we (mis)value sociopathy in leaders, the misogynistic tech bro world, and the screwed up place we find ourselves in this moment.
jun 11, 2025, 4:37 pm • 4 0 • view
So they want everyone on basic and not coming at them with pitchforks and torches
jun 11, 2025, 6:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Kindergarten teachers are giggling lol.
jun 12, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
If all black tshirts were to suddenly disappear, would all the tech bros have to stay home?
jun 11, 2025, 4:56 pm • 2 0 • view
so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should
jun 11, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Siri - show me an image of three wanky posers with zero life experience who think they know what's best for everyone
jun 11, 2025, 4:47 pm • 9 0 • view
jun 11, 2025, 4:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Joke's on them, I'm unemployed
jun 11, 2025, 4:29 pm • 13 0 • view
Jesus Christ. A "post-labor" future. So this is the play? Get rich 'as fast as possible,' so we can spend all those billions the year before human goes into total catastrophic meltdown. Fuck these dudes selling UTOPIA by way of scarcity. Fuck you too, NYT.
jun 11, 2025, 4:51 pm • 4 0 • view
I don’t know. Eliminating everybody’s job in a capitalist economy seems like a bad idea.
jun 23, 2025, 5:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Couldn’t steal your girl so decided to steal your job.
jun 11, 2025, 4:46 pm • 10 0 • view
Pied Piper
jun 11, 2025, 4:31 pm • 3 0 • view
jun 11, 2025, 4:30 pm • 5 0 • view
the nyt are such credulous schmucks, yall should feel way more embarrassed about that.
jun 11, 2025, 4:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Good luck teaching AI to intubate you during your code, start your IVs, remove your ruptured appendix, draw your blood, clean your teeth, apply your braces, rehab your grandma with the broken hip, clean your hospital room… the list is endless.
jun 11, 2025, 7:51 pm • 2 0 • view
come and get it losers. I am my own company; therefore, my talents and skills are my own and for the clients I supply. They want my job; I'll take them to court for copyright infringement.
jun 11, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
People like this shouldn’t be able to show their faces in public.
jun 11, 2025, 7:02 pm • 1 0 • view
stop reporting on these losers. they don't deserve an audience
jun 12, 2025, 2:05 am • 1 0 • view
Fuck your tech reporter, you, and these nerds!
jun 11, 2025, 5:02 pm • 2 0 • view
jun 11, 2025, 4:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Fake humans ??
jun 11, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Good luck replicating 45 yrs. of engineering experience. I remember when software geeks invented tools to design buildings: Oklahoma stadium collapse. We've been here before.
jun 11, 2025, 4:29 pm • 21 0 • view
Time to “automate” all technology entrepreneurial and CEO jobs, so the rest of us can get on with our lives.
jun 11, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
This A.I. company can kiss my ass.
jun 12, 2025, 8:25 am • 0 0 • view
jun 12, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view