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The AI boss at a San Francisco store just fired its first human - Business Insider

Published by Business Insider By Katherine Li · 15 August 2026 at 11:11
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The AI boss at a San Francisco store just fired its first human - Business Insider
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Andon Labs, which is experimenting with letting an AI have majority control over a retail store, said that it fired an employee with good reason.

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