Bye bye, humans in customer service? One out of every two of you? Yes, if a Forrester prediction comes true in four years. Researchers predict that by 2030, 49% of current customer service jobs will ...

But as anyone who has ever had frustrating conversations with a chatbot online or over the phone can attest, completely ...

When should companies use AI in customer service, and when should customers talk to a human? Shep Hyken explores AI, empathy, ...

It was only the start of an odyssey of frustration and anxiety spanning multiple days as Ault struggled to get to the bottom of how 20 years of personal data and professional contacts had been taken ...

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AI can be magic. AI can be controversial. AI can be way off the mark in its answers to human queries. It can also be entertaining, such as in the recent headline-grabbing cases of DALL-E, which ...

AI in customer service is cost-effective and efficient, but there are significant drawbacks that are eroding brand trust and damaging customer relationships in ways dashboards don’t capture. AI ...

70% of service organizations using AI agents report positive outcomes within 60 days of deployment. Agentic AI adoption for service organizations has grown from 39% to 66% in the past 12 months. A new ...

A customer dials in wanting an answer now, not a callback, not a place in a queue. The business wants the other side of the same coin: shorter waits, steady service, and a cost line that doesn't climb ...

California AB 1609 requires large businesses over $500M in revenue to connect customers with a human agent within 15 minutes or offer a callback.

Earlier this month, Uber cut about 10 percent of its customer support team as part of a broader effort to “simplify operations, strengthen in-person collaboration, and continue to embrace AI,” a ...

People are using AI to call customer service, negotiate bills, or cancel subscriptions. Companies are working out how to handle these bot callers.