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AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
Amazon Web Services announced the planned shutdown of its Mechanical Turk platform on September 30, 2026, citing an internal assessment — ending a 21-year-old human-in-the-loop crowdsourcing service foundational to early AI training and digital labor markets.
Aug 26, 2026
Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its 19-year-old human-powered microtask platform originally described by Jeff Bezos as 'artificial artificial intelligence', marking the end of a foundational infrastructure layer for early AI training and human-in-the-loop systems.
Aug 26, 2026
AI and the new Mechanical Turk - Financial Times
The article draws a historical parallel between AI systems and the 18th-century Mechanical Turk hoax — an automaton that appeared intelligent but was secretly operated by a hidden human — to question whether contemporary AI's apparent autonomy masks extensive human labor, curation, and intervention.
Jul 14, 2026
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk | TechCrunch
Amazon announced it will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing platform for human intelligence tasks, signaling a strategic retreat from its public-facing microtask marketplace.
Published Jul 6, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 8, 2026
Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original "Artificial Artificial Intelligence"
Amazon Web Services is ending new customer access to Mechanical Turk—a foundational human-in-the-loop crowdsourcing platform—on July 30, 2026, marking the formal sunset of a pioneering AI-adjacent infrastructure tool.
Published Jul 6, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 9, 2026
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Amazon announced it will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk, signaling a strategic wind-down of its crowdsourced microtask platform amid evolving AI capabilities and labor platform economics.
Published Jul 5, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 8, 2026
AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
AWS has halted new customer signups for Amazon Mechanical Turk and placed the service in maintenance mode, indicating its planned retirement after nearly two decades of operation.
Jul 6, 2026
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it - The Register
Amazon announced it will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk (MTurk), its human-powered microtask platform, citing evolving AI capabilities and shifting business priorities — signaling a strategic retreat from crowd-sourced labor as generative AI advances.
Published Jul 3, 2026 · Analyzed Jul 6, 2026