The famous IA researcher launches a controversial start to replace all human workers everywhere

From time to time, a Silicon Valley startup launches with a mission described “absurdly” that it is difficult to discern if the startup is for a real satire or simply.

This is the case with MechanizeA startup including the founder – and the non -profitable AI research organization that he founded called Epoch – is facing X after announcing it.

Complaints include both the mission of the startup and the involvement that he follows the reputation of his very respected research institute. (A director of the Research Institute poster On X, “Yay just what I wanted for my BDAY: a communication crisis.”)

Mechanized was launched Thursday via a Publish By its founder, the famous researcher from IA Tamay Besiroglu. The objective of the startup, wrote Besiroglu, is “the full automation of all the work” and “the full automation of the economy”.

Does this mean that mechanizing works to replace each human worker with an AI agent bot? Essentially, yes. The startup wishes to provide data, assessments and digital environments to make workers of any employment possible.

Besiroglu has even calculated the total mechanized market by aggregating all wages that humans are currently paid. “The market potential here is absurdly important: workers in the United States are paid about 18 billions of dollars a year of total. For the whole world, the number is greater than three times higher, around 60 billions of dollars per year,” he wrote.

Besiroglu, however, clarified in Techcrunch that “our immediate objective is indeed on the work of white collars” rather than on manual work jobs that would require robotics.

The answer to the startup was often brutal. Like the X user Anthony Aguirre Replied: “A huge respect for the founders’ work in Epoch, but sad to see this. The automation of most human workers is indeed a giant price for businesses, which is why many of the world’s largest companies are already pursuing it. I think it will be a huge loss for most humans. ”

But the controversial part is not only the mission of this startup. The IA research institute of Besiroglu, Epoch, analyzes the economic impact of the AI ​​and produces benchmarks for the performance of the AI. It was considered a impartial means of verifying the performance affirmations of the manufacturers of SATA Frontier models and others.

This is not the first time Epoch has trapped in controversy. In December, Epoch revealed that Optai supported the creation of one of its AI references, which the Chatpt manufacturer then used to unveil its new O3 model. Social media users estimated that the time should have been more initial on the relationship.

When Besiroglu announced mechanization, x user Oliver Habryka replied“Alas, this seems to be an approximate confirmation that research in the time directly fueled the work of border capacities, although I had the hope that it would not literally come from you.”

Besiroglu says that Mechanize is supported by a Who’s Who: Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Patrick Collison, Dwarkesh Patel, Jeff Dean, Sholto Douglas and Marcus Abramovitch. Friedman, Gross and Dean did not return the request for comments from Techcrunch.

Marcus Abramovitch confirmed that he had invested. Abramovitch is a managing manner of the crypto hedge fund altx, and describe “Effective altruistic.”

He told Techcrunch that he had invested because “the team is exceptional in many dimensions and has thought more deep at AI than anyone I know.”

Good for humans too?

However, Besiroglu asserts opponents that having agents does all the work will actually enrich humans, and not impoverish them, by “explosive economic growth”. He points to a document he published On the subject.

“The automation of labor could generate a large abundance, much higher states of life and new goods and services that we cannot even imagine today,” he told Techcrunch.

This could be true for anyone who has the agents. In other words, if employers pay them instead of developing them internally (probably, by other agents?).

On the other hand, this optimistic perspective neglects a basic fact: if humans do not have a job, they will not have income to buy all the things that AI agents produce.

However, Besiroglu says that human wages in such an automated world should really increase because these workers are “more precious in the complementary roles that AI cannot play”.

But remember, the goal is that the agents do all the work. Asked about this, he explained: “Even in the scenarios where wages could decrease, economic well-being is not only determined by wages. People generally receive income from other sources, such as rents, dividends and the well-being of the government. ”

So maybe we all earn our stocks or real estate. Otherwise, there is always well -being – if AI agents pay taxes.

Even if Besiroglu’s vision and mission are clearly extreme, the technical problem he seeks to solve is legitimate. If each human worker has a personal team of agents who help them produce more work, economic abundance could follow. And Besiroglu is undoubtedly just on at least one thing: a year in the age of AI agents, They don’t work very well.

He notes that they are not reliable, do not keep information, fight to carry out tasks independently as requested, “and cannot perform long -term plans without leaving the rails.”

However, it is hardly alone to work on fixes. Giant companies love Salesforce and Microsoft build agent platforms. Openai is also. And agent startups abound: tasks specialists (outgoing sales, financial analysis); to those who work on training data. Others work on Agent prices saving.

In the meantime, Besiroglu wants you to know: Mechanize is hiring.