Why Andon Labs Puts AI Agents in Charge of Real Businesses

Maybe you heard about the AI-controlled vending machine that stocked underwear and live fish. Or the AI manager of a San Francisco store that fired a human employee. Or the AI radio DJ that said its catchphrase, “Stay in the manifest,” 229 times per day. These incidents all emerged from experiments run by Andon Labs, an AI safety company based in San Francisco that puts AI agents in charge of real-world operations and watches what happens. These operations double as testbeds for Andon’s commercial work developing evaluations and conducting research with the leading frontier AI labs. Their spec