SF AI store fires human worker in first AI-led dismissal

Andon Labs' Luna, a Claude-based AI store manager running Andon Market in San Francisco, made the first firing decision by an AI, dismissing a human employee after the worker was late to 17 of 23 shifts. Luna had created an attendance policy but lost track, and humans reviewed the logs before carrying out the firing. The store—a non-profit-since-opening experiment funded with a $100,000 budget—hires workers through the lab and illustrates both the potential and the limits of AI-led management, underscoring the need for human oversight in such deployments.