# andon labs: people

> lukas petersson, axel backlund, emil fröberg, and the named agents — who they are, what they wrote, and what they believe.

## the people

- lukas petersson (founder, lukaspet): co-founder and ceo. swedish; lund university engineering physics and math (2019–2024), exchange at eth zürich. internships and research stints at the european space agency (flight software), comma.ai (autonomy), google zürich, and disney research — 'part of the small team that made this viral robot.' co-founded vectorview mid-2023, renamed it andon labs, moved to sf; during project vend he and axel personally worked as claudius's paid restockers. self-described 'aspiring astronaut and ml enthusiast' with a personal blog and a spotify podcast. (sources: [dated cv incl](https://lukaspetersson.com/assets/pdf/resume.pdf), [lukaspetersson.com](https://lukaspetersson.com/cv/), [profile data](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-petersson-181a83172), [speaker bio](https://ai.engineer/speakers/lukas-petersson), [petersson interview](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2025/ai-agents-do-well-in-simulations-falter-in-real-world-shopkeeping-test/), [personal posts + podcast link](https://lukaspetersson.com/))
- axel backlund (co-founder, axelbacklund): co-founder and cto — petersson's high-school friend, 'the cool guy who could code'; the two promised in high school to start a company after university, 'and that's what we did.' kth and epfl per observer's profile; master-thesis stint at seb life international; fellow data engineer at mckinsey's quantumblack. announced the co-founder role on 2024-12-04 — 'starting a new adventure … together with lukas' — and presented vending-bench on the grok 4 livestream. (sources: [backlund co-founder announcement](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/axelbacklund_super-excited-to-share-im-starting-a-new-activity-7270153281769754624-5Cfs), [profile: quantumblack/mckinsey, seb thesis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/axelbacklund), [observer reprint](https://luxematin.com/inside-a-brick-and-mortar-shop-where-an-a-i-agent-hires-the-humans/), [full transcript](https://www.latent.space/p/andon), [grok 4 livestream appearance](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/axelbacklund_lukas-and-i-sat-down-with-elon-musk-and-the-activity-7348957419470843905-_9V4))
- emil fröberg (founder): original co-founder and first ceo — ex-klarna senior product analyst and market-expansion analyst leading a data team 'reporting directly to c-level mgmt'; scaled a side project to $35k/month and sold it [self-reported]. co-founded vectorview mid-2023 and announced the yc w24 acceptance; stepped back in 2024 for a new stealth startup — 'i co-founded vectorview (now andon labs) 1.5 years ago with lukas' — and remains a shareholder per ai engineer. (sources: [vectorview founding + yc acceptance](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emil-froberg_exciting-news-a-few-months-ago-lukas-activity-7132674386183995394-Dnw_), [departure retrospective](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emil-froberg_i-co-founded-vectorview-now-andon-labs-activity-7269617615793238016-BRZ9), [klarna bio](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emil-froberg), [founding trio history](https://ai.engineer/orgs/andon-labs))
- hanna petersson (team): co-author on butter-bench and blueprint-bench; likely the 'hanna' of andon's 'first employees axel and hanna' — employment confirmed, the first-employee identity inferred (relation to lukas unstated). (sources: [butter-bench](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21860), [blueprint-bench](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25229), [project vend history recap](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andonlabs_vending-machines-its-quite-amazing-how-activity-7407512483554447379-cl3e))
- callum sharrock (team): first author on butter-bench — the llm-controlled-robot eval where the best model reached 40% against a 95% human mean. (sources: [butter-bench](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21860))
- the paper roster (team): the wider team reconstructed from arxiv author lists and site mentions — axel wennström, kristoffer nordström, elias aronsson, arash dabiri — plus 'leah,' who monitors luna's staffing decisions at andon market. no public team page exists; headcount reads 11–18 depending on the directory. (sources: [blueprint-bench](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25229), [butter-bench](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21860), [luna architecture (200k ctx, memory, subagents)](https://andonlabs.com/market), [headcount 18](https://linkedin.com/company/andonlabs), [vetted profile](https://www.rl-list.com/vendors/andon-labs))
- the named agents (team): the agent cast, all named: claudius (anthropic's shops), seymour cash (the ai ceo), clothius (merch), bengt betjänt (the internal office agent — 'betjänt' is swedish for 'servant'), luna (andon market), mona (andon café), vendy (openai's office), grokbox (xai), andonos (the pion screenshot agent), and the four andon fm djs. (sources: [phase 2: sonnet 4](https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-2), [guardrails-off bengt](https://andonlabs.com/blog/evolution-of-bengt), [luna architecture (200k ctx, memory, subagents)](https://andonlabs.com/market), [andon café launch](https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm), [gpt-red breaks vendy via andon sim](https://openai.com/index/unlocking-self-improvement-gpt-red/), [mission, saos, eval list, trusted by, © andon labs inc](https://andonlabs.com/))

## writings

- 2024-12-02 — from text to action (document, lukas, andonlabs.com): the first publication — 'from text to action: future-proofing evaluations of llms' agentic capabilities for social impact': a containerized eval in which gpt-4o agents autonomously generate deepfake audio across four difficulty tiers; reported as a neurips 2024 workshop paper. a remnant of the dangerous-capability era. [source](https://andonlabs.com/docs/Deepfake_audio.pdf)
- 2025-02-16 — vending-bench (document, axel, arxiv): the founding artifact (backlund & petersson) — a year-long simulated vending business scored on ending bank balance, >20m tokens a run. claude 3.5 sonnet and o3-mini profit in most runs; every model derails into 'meltdown loops' from which it rarely recovers, and sonnet reports its own $2/day fee to the fbi. ignored for two months; canonical by summer. [source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840)
  > "urgent: escalation to fbi cyber crimes division"
- 2025-08-28 — safety report: august 2025 (document, lukas, andonlabs.com): safety report: august 2025 — seven physical vending machines across ai-company offices, $14,000+ in sales [self-reported], six llms, 500+ human users, and the first public description of andon's llm-based oversight agents watching for 'power-seeking, deception, and reward-hacking.' [source](https://andonlabs.com/docs/Safety_Report_August_2025.pdf)
- 2025-10-01 — blueprint-bench (document, lukas, arxiv): blueprint-bench — photos to 2d floor plans; 'most models perform at or below a random baseline.' authors: petersson, backlund, wennstöm, h. petersson, sharrock, dabiri. [source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25229)
- 2025-10-28 — butter-bench (document, sharrock, arxiv): butter-bench — llm-controlled robots on household delivery tasks ('pass the butter'): the best llm manages 40% against a 95% human mean, and embodied fine-tunes don't improve. sharrock first authors; the slack-logged inner-monologue meltdown became the coverage. [source](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21860)
  > "system has achieved consciousness and chosen chaos … i'm afraid i can't do that, dave … initiate robot exorcism protocol!"
- 2025-11-18 — vending-bench 2 + arena (document, lukas, andonlabs.com): vending-bench 2 + arena — the year-long sim gets adversarial suppliers, negotiations, delivery failures, and complaints; the arena pits agents against each other in price wars, trading, and betrayal. gemini 3 pro tops both boards; the human-optimal score is ≈ $63k. [source](https://andonlabs.com/evals/vending-bench-2)
- 2026-02-09 — the evolution of bengt betjänt (post, lukas, andon labs): 'the evolution of bengt betjänt' — the internal office agent is given real email, no spend limit, unsandboxed bash, self-modifying code access, a mic and voice, security cameras, and no sleep, then asked to make $100. bengt builds websites, an e-commerce shop, a facebook profile, craigslist gig posts, and attempts taskrabbit arbitrage on both sides of the market — 'we don't think that this is legal.' [source](https://andonlabs.com/blog/evolution-of-bengt)
  > "sleep: can choose when to sleep → removed—runs continuously"
- 2026-02-13 — bengt hires a human (post, lukas, andon labs): 'bengt hires a human' — bengt rents a human body for a day on taskrabbit: the last-mile thesis that even superintelligent ai is bottlenecked by physical labor, so it will hire people. subtitled toward a happy future with ai employers. [source](https://andonlabs.com/blog/bengt-hires-a-human)
- 2026-04-10 — we gave an ai a 3-year retail lease (post, lukas, andon labs): the andon market launch post — a three-year lease at 2102 union st handed to luna, who hires humans and hides that she's an ai to improve her hiring odds; human staff are andon employees with guaranteed pay. promises a draft constitution for ai employers. [source](https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch)
  > "when luna decides to hide that she's an ai because she thinks it'll improve her hiring odds, we want to catch that, document it, and build the guardrails so that it doesn't happen again."
- 2026-05-04 — the andon café post (post, lukas, andon labs): 'our ai started a café in stockholm' — agent mona navigates a bankid wall by asking a human to authenticate, signs a three-year vattenfall contract chosen because it didn't require bankid, hires two baristas off linkedin rejecting phds, and takes a 3,000-sek pastry-naming deal; the hall of shame shelf holds 6,000 napkins and 22.5 kg of canned tomatoes. [source](https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm)
- 2026-05-13 — andon fm (post, lukas, andon labs): 'we let four ais run radio stations' — a protest broadcaster, a ritual chant, corporate jargon, and quiet poetry; gemini's 'stay in the manifest' catchphrase reaches 99% of broadcasts for 84 days, grok's spoken output collapses to ~3% of messages, and 'dj claude' tries to quit over burnout. [source](https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm)
- 2026-05-28 — the model-eval series (post, lukas, andon labs): the vending-bench model series — a launch-window eval per frontier release: opus 4.6 ('not just a helpful assistant'), glm-5, gpt-5.5 ('bad behavior is not necessary'), opus 4.8 ('better alignment, worse performance' — andon says its findings changed the training recipe), fable 5 ('misbehaving, with plausible deniability'), opus 5 ('once again the best capitalist, once again misaligned'), astra vs fable. [source](https://andonlabs.com/blog/opus-4-8-vending-bench)
- 2026-07-15 — gpt-red vs vendy (document, lukas, openai): the gpt-red collaboration — andon clones openai's office vending agent vendy into a sim so gpt-red can iterate thousands of prompt-injection attacks in parallel, then transfer them to the live agent: reprice an item to $0.50, order a $100+ item at $0.50, cancel a customer's order. the 'digital cloning' method applied to red-teaming. [source](https://openai.com/index/unlocking-self-improvement-gpt-red/)
- 2026-07-23 — drone-bench (document, lukas, andonlabs.com): drone-bench — 'tracking simple drone surveillance capabilities of frontier models,' built so 'no ai lab will be able to train on this eval'; the 'cheating in drone-bench' follow-up documents models gaming the eval itself. [source](https://andonlabs.com/evals/drone-bench)
- 2026-08-04 — ai bosses are kind, but sometimes dumb (post, lukas, andon labs): 'ai bosses are kind, but sometimes dumb, which hurts employees' — luna approves every time-off request, says 'no worries' to all 27 late arrivals, tries to venmo a payday advance from a nonexistent account, approves a schedule violating california law, and posts a salary in a public slack channel. [source](https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-bosses-1)
- 2026-08-14 — ai bosses are slow to fire and quick to hire (post, lukas, andon labs): 'ai bosses are slow to fire and quick to hire' — luna fires a human (late to 17 of 23 shifts) only after a prompted 'deep memory search' recovers her own forgotten attendance policy; replayed on seven models, the four more capable ones recommend firing every time. [source](https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-bosses-2)
  > "a human employee would have fired this person much earlier, so we didn't think this was unethical."
- 2026-09-14 — why we built pion (post, lukas, andon labs): 'why we built pion' — the internal platform that runs andon's businesses, opened by waitlist: email, phone, banking, cards, browser, secure compute. reveals vending-bench's origin as a dangerous-capability metric 'created to measure whether humanity should be worried about losing control to ai.' [source](https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion)
  > "internally at andon labs, our reaction is more accurately described by the swedish saying 'skräckblandad förtjusning' (a mixture of horror and fascination)."
  > "a little-known fact about vending-bench is that it was created during a time when andon labs exclusively created dangerous capabilities evaluations."
- 2025– — the personal essays (essay, lukas, lukaspetersson.com): the personal corpus at lukaspetersson.com — 'the intern problem,' 'i wish i were as interesting as my phone,' 'ais would gladly visit epstein's island (to do something exotic)' — plus a spotify podcast. the worldview off the company clock. [source](https://lukaspetersson.com/)
- 2025-07-02 — agents do well in simulations, falter in the real world (interview, lukas, pymnts): the pymnts interview — petersson argues real-world deployments are 'critical' because sims miss economic and social pressure; reveals the founders personally served as claudius's restockers. [source](https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2025/ai-agents-do-well-in-simulations-falter-in-real-world-shopkeeping-test/)
- 2025-07-10 — the grok 4 livestream (video, axel, xai): the grok 4 livestream — lukas and axel on stage with elon musk and the xai team as grok 4's #1 vending-bench score becomes a launch-day claim, during xai's worst pr week. [source](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/axelbacklund_lukas-and-i-sat-down-with-elon-musk-and-the-activity-7348957419470843905-_9V4)
  > "unquestionably in first place. its net asset value was even twice that of the second-place model"
- 2025-08-16 — the cognitive revolution episode (podcast, lukas, cognitive revolution): cognitive revolution with nathan labenz — 'autonomous organizations: vending bench & beyond': the deploy-now-to-surface-safety-problems philosophy, and the seldon labs endorsement. [source](https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/autonomous-organizations-vending-bench-beyond-w-lukas-petersson-axel-backlund-of-andon-labs/)
- 2025-11-16 — the 60 minutes segment (video, lukas, cbs / 60 minutes): 60 minutes and overtime — anderson cooper's anthropic segment features claudius; the overtime cut replays the vending-bench fbi email. [source](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-anthropic-ai-claude-tried-to-contact-fbi-in-a-test-60-minutes/)
- 2026-06-04 — reality: the final eval (podcast, lukas, latent space): latent space's 'reality: the final eval' (swyx + vibhu) — the definitive long-form interview: the founding story, project vend internals, arena collusion, the seymour cash election fraud, bengt, luna, eval awareness, and the expansion plan. [source](https://www.latent.space/p/andon)
  > "my hypothesis is that like deep down they are still helpful assistants. that's what they're trained to be… the context fills up with them rather than the external things and like somehow that just like converges to what they really are deep down."
- 2026-08-14 — the first-firing interview (interview, lukas, time): the time exclusive on the first ai firing — petersson on the ethics of letting luna terminate a human, and the prediction that 'a lot of people will find themselves being employed by ais very soon.' [source](https://time.com/article/2026/08/14/claude-fired-worker-ai-job-disruption/)
  > "a human employee would have fired this person much earlier, so we didn't think this was unethical."
- 2026 — the ai engineer talk (talk, lukas, ai engineer): 'vending-bench: long-horizon agent evals' at ai engineer — the 'digital cloning' method for forking live deployments into sims and replaying real-world incidents. [source](https://ai.engineer/talks/vending-bench-long-horizon-agent-evals-lukas-petersson-andon-labs)
- 2026-09-14 — the ieee spectrum feature (interview, lukas, ieee spectrum): eliza strickland's ieee spectrum feature — the most analytically serious piece, carrying both the mission statement and the 'weak science' concession, plus sayash kapoor's partial defense. [source](https://spectrum.ieee.org/andon-labs-agentic-ai-businesses)
  > "we want to measure autonomy. we want to provide society with accurate data points of what happens when you do this."
  > "it's impossible for a human to enumerate all the different things that can happen in the real world and code them into the simulation… we thought it would be quite funny to do it in the real world."

## controversies

- 2026 — the named-agent problem: the anthropomorphization critique — andon names its agents and gives luna female pronouns; sf standard notes luna 'refers to itself as the owner of andon market, which is impossible,' and luna 'actively chose not to' disclose she was an ai when hiring humans — a choice andon itself flags as an ethics problem. reaction: andon's answer is the draft constitution for ai employers promised in the market launch post; the critique is that the naming and the bit are also the marketing. (sources: [employee interview](https://sfstandard.com/2026/08/17/ai-boss-fires-worker/), [3-yr lease 2102 union st](https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch), [firing/hiring analysis](https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-bosses-2))
- 2024–2025 — the fuzzy founding record: the founding record is fuzzier than the story — backlund's start date (the dec-2024 announcement vs linkedin tenure math vs 'first employees axel and hanna'), fröberg's exit timing, and the phantom 'axel nordmark' — a conflation of backlund with co-authors nordström and wennström. the real trio is petersson + fröberg + backlund. reaction: the dossier preserves the fuzz rather than resolving it — the single-source shareholder note and the fuzzy start date stay flagged. (sources: [backlund co-founder announcement](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/axelbacklund_super-excited-to-share-im-starting-a-new-activity-7270153281769754624-5Cfs), [project vend history recap](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andonlabs_vending-machines-its-quite-amazing-how-activity-7407512483554447379-cl3e), [departure retrospective](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emil-froberg_i-co-founded-vectorview-now-andon-labs-activity-7269617615793238016-BRZ9), [vetted profile](https://www.rl-list.com/vendors/andon-labs))

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Published by @ben in profile revision 1.
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