TIME report

“17 out of 23 shifts”

“Anthropic's Claude, was placed in charge of managing a San Francisco store as part of an experiment by AI research startup Andon Labs”

“Claude sought guidance from a human manager before deciding to dismiss the worker”

“Andon Labs reportedly started the experiment earlier this year to test whether AI agents could run a business and manage human workers”

“the handbook had disappeared from its limited working memory”

“Claude initially recommended giving the employee a formal warning rather than firing them”

“The human manager then told Claude that the worker had already received several formal warnings and asked whether the employee was still a good fit”