It was only a matter of time.
I'm going to start by saying this lady needed to be fired.
She was late for 17 of her 23 shifts at Andon Market, would spontaneously leave her shifts, took the company credit card home, and threw company merchandise in the trash.
So yeah, that whole thing about her being fired by an AI manager — that's totally something a human would've done anyway.
From The San Francisco Standard:
Andon Market is an experimental AI-managed retail space that's been open since April. Its goal is less to make money on the generic goods it sells and more an experiment to see if an AI agent can effectively run a retail operation alongside human workers and customers.
So far, the shop has lost $40,000.
It's clever marketing for parent company Andon Labs(opens in new tab), which is preparing for a world where 'organizations are run autonomously by AI.'
This place is apparently extremely boring as a job, so I suppose I understand why this fired employee didn't really care about her job.
What she didn't know is that she was part of an AI-prompt experience to teach the robots how to manage (and get rid of) humans.
(I'm sure that won't be used for nefarious ends in the future, right??)
Andon Labs announced Friday that the AI boss, Luna, had fired an unnamed employee for repeated lateness, spontaneously abandoning shifts, taking home a company credit card, and throwing merchandise in the garbage.
Despite those infractions, the AI agent needed repeated probing by engineers at Andon Labs to determine that these were fireable offenses that went against the employee handbook — which the AI wrote.
In essence:
(Yet.)
I'm actually relieved that the human still has to make the hard and awkward moral decisions.
But once they update the manager-bot's algorithm to ignore Asimov's Three Laws, well...
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