{"id":211767,"date":"2026-05-11T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/the-barista-is-human-but-an-ai-agent-runs-this-experimental-swedish-cafe\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:30:09","slug":"the-barista-is-human-but-an-ai-agent-runs-this-experimental-swedish-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/the-barista-is-human-but-an-ai-agent-runs-this-experimental-swedish-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/lifestyle\/ai-artificial-intelligence-sweden-p75349\">The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/lifestyle\/ai-artificial-intelligence-sweden-p75349\">https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/lifestyle\/ai-artificial-intelligence-sweden-p75349<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 01:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newsday.com\">www.newsday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are 6 key points from the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI-Driven Cafe Experiment<\/strong>: An experimental caf\u00e9 in Stockholm employs an AI agent nicknamed &#8220;Mona&#8221; to manage almost all aspects of the business, powered by Google&#8217;s Gemini technology.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Limited Success<\/strong>: Although the caf\u00e9 has made over $5,700 in sales since opening, it has a remaining budget of less than $5,000, causing uncertainty about its profitability.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Ethical and Operational Concerns<\/strong>: Experts express ethical worries, including potential liability issues and the broader implications for employment and decision-making roles in human societies.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI&#8217;s Challenges<\/strong>: The AI agent struggles with inventory management, including ordering excessive and unnecessary items as well as failing to meet supply deadlines.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Experiment&#8217;s Goals<\/strong>: Managed by Andon Labs, the experiment aims to explore AI&#8217;s role in the future, including ethical questions and potential negative impacts on society and business without proper infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Future Prospects<\/strong>: The experiment reflects Andon Labs&#8217; vision of a future where organizations could be run autonomously by AI, even though current results are mixed and raise significant concerns.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The barista is human but an AI agent runs this experimental Swedish cafe https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/lifestyle\/ai-artificial-intelligence-sweden-p75349 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.newsday.com\/ace\/c:MjZhNzM0NWEtYTVlMS00:MmNlNTUzMDEtZGE4OS00\/landscape\/1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211769,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211767\/revisions\/211769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}