Mechanical Turk

Amazon to shut down Mechanical Turk after 21 years

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. announced Tuesday that it will permanently close Mechanical Turk, its pioneering crowdsourced labor platform, effective September 30, 2026. The decision ends a two-decade experiment in what founder Jeff Bezos once called "artificial artificial intelligence" — farming out…

Amazon to close Mechanical Turk to new customers

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform on July 30, 2026, placing the 21-year-old service into maintenance mode as advances in AI automation erode the need for human microtask labor.