“By mid-2028, cognitive labor becomes economically worthless — actually negative value: humans become the dumbest entity on the team and there is no market for negative-value labor.”
Founder of Intelligent Internet; former CEO of Stability AI
Said Nov 29, 2025Deadline Jun 30, 2028NextBigFuture, 29 November 2025, reporting Mostaque's '1,000-day tipping point' thesis
Deadline is mid-2028; Mostaque has made the same ~1,000-day argument in his book 'The Last Economy' and in late-2025 podcast appearances, framing agentic 'digital twins' plus collapsing token costs as driving human cognitive labor to negative value.