Selling a house with AI

Stuart A. Thompson, a New York Times technology journalist, used Google’s Gemini chatbot to avoid a realtor fee and sell his house almost completely from start to finish.

I had started this experiment thinking that the chatbot would create a superpowered version of myself — combining my own judgment with its vast knowledge. But once I started relying on A.I., witnessing its know-it-all competency with basically everything, my shortcomings started to feel enormous and even risky. I had thought I was elevating my own skills. In reality, I was replacing them.

Thompson prompted for listing price, negotiations, and dealing with the mental hurdles from selling an asset that made most of his family’s net worth.

The house sold above asking price and there were fewer fees, from using Gemini, a general chatbot paid for by an employer. What happens to Realtors in ten years? It’s getting a lot easier to see homeowners and buyers sidestepping high fees and instead using specialized chatbots to negotiate with others using chatbots.