In a first, AI boss sacks employee at San Francisco retail store for being late 17 out of 23 shifts
An AI agent named Luna, built on Anthropic's Claude and put in charge of running a San Francisco retail store, has fired its first human employee — for being late to 17 of 23 shifts — in what researchers call a watershed moment for AI's role in the economy.
For the first time, an AI manager at a San Francisco retail store decided to terminate an employee due to repeated lateness, reported Time. The employee was late for 17 out of 23 shifts. Luna, the AI manager of Andon Market, did not dismiss the worker independently. Conversation logs revealed that the AI had created an attendance policy but forgot it, allowing the lateness to persist for months.
Andon Labs, the company behind the AI, noted that Luna retrieved its policies from memory and assessed the worker's performance, leading to the decision to fire the employee. Andon Labs CEO Lukas Petersson acknowledged that AI's increasing power could lead to more firings made by AI bosses in the future. Petersson noted that Claude, the previous AI manager, was lenient and overlooked the employee's lateness. The store's financial situation worsened as a result of Claude's management style.
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