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AI Gave 40-Pound Bags to a Stocker With a 15-Pound Limit

After an injury, an overnight grocery stocker kept getting heavy work from an AI routing system. Refusing each task made his medical restriction harder to keep private.

Mara Quinn · October 31, 2026 · 7 min

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