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The Great Nightmare Has Arrived: AI is no longer just recommending - it is firing humans itself
The case in San Francisco where an AI agent fired a human employee exposes the progress of global experiments in which research companies are trying to appoint artificial intelligence to manage businesses. Alongside logistical successes and creative bureaucratic workarounds, the AI's inability to deal with the physical world, errors due to a lack of business understanding, and the realization that...
For the first time: Claude managed a business and fired a human employee
The AI model Claude, while managing a physical store as part of an Andon Labs experiment, has fired a human employee for the first time. Despite the technological milestone, the AI manager proved economically inefficient, losing $40,000 in five months.
Precedent: A company let AI manage the business – and it sent an employee home
The first experiment of its kind in the world of employment offers a disturbing glimpse into the future of labor relations in the era of artificial intelligence. According to an exclusive investigation by TIME magazine, the research startup Andon Labs entrusted the day-to-day management of a retail store in San Francisco called Andon Market to an AI agent based on Anthropic's Claude model. The...