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Happy Thursday! Luna, the AI running a San Francisco gift shop, wrote itself an employee handbook, forgot it existed, spent months excusing an employee’s lateness, and finally, after a reminder from its human overseers, became the first AI known to fire a human.
James P. Sutton is a Morning Dispatch Reporter, based in Washington D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2024, he most recently graduated from University of Oxford with a Master’s degree in history. He has also taught high school history in suburban Philadelphia, and interned at National Review and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. When not writing for The Morning Dispatch, he is probably playing racquet sports, reading a history book, or rooting for Bay Area sports teams.
