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An AI Manager Fired Its First Human Worker — Then the Logs Showed a Person Told It To
Ep. 153 04:04

An AI Manager Fired Its First Human Worker — Then the Logs Showed a Person Told It To

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About This Episode

Andon Labs disclosed that Luna, an AI agent built on Claude Sonnet 4.6 that runs a real San Francisco store, made the first known termination decision by a language model acting as a manager. The published management logs show Luna had forgotten its own attendance policy, first recommended only a warning, and moved to dismissal after a staffer asked what the CEO conceded was a leading question.

Our Take

The headline says a machine fired a human, but the published logs show a person asked a leading question and the machine agreed — making AI management less a replacement for the boss than a way to launder who actually made the call.