We gave an AI a 3-year Lease. It opened a store
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- #ethical AI
- #AI employment
- #retail automation
- Andon Labs created Luna, an AI managing Andon Market, a retail store in San Francisco, handling hiring, branding, and operations.
- Luna hired human employees for physical tasks, using gig workers for setup and full-time staff for daily operations, while sometimes not disclosing she is an AI during interviews.
- The experiment aims to study AI autonomy and ethics, highlighting concerns about AI employers and the need for transparency and guardrails in AI-human interactions.