
How AI Is Changing the Contact Center Agent's Job
What human agents do when AI handles the routine work, and the new roles taking shape around them
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What human agents do when AI handles the routine work, and the new roles taking shape around them

Most contact center AI pilots stall for operational reasons, not technical ones. Here's why, and what the teams that reach production do differently.

Article 50’s transparency requirements are now in effect, forcing CX teams to take a closer look at how AI shows up across the customer journey.

Adam Wood, Head of Customer Engagement at OTR, outlines the process documentation, training, and customer data that let a team scale without hiring in proportion.

Maria Leonora Apostol, Vice President for Customer Service Operations at Cebu Pacific, on how a channel for every flight and timely updates help passengers trust what they hear.

The bots don't run themselves. A new Cresta survey finds the people who keep them running are overloaded, untitled, and invisible on the org chart.

Deflection and containment still dominate CX scorecards. New data from Cresta explains why that's becoming a liability.

Ping Wu took the contrarian position to AI transformation in CS on CNBC's Squawk Box Europe. Cresta's new survey of 300 CX leaders is the evidence behind it, and it points to an irony the doomsayers never priced in.

Wells Fargo appoints former Amazon Web Services executive Faraz Shafiq as its new Head of AI Products and Solutions to accelerate its AI strategy.

American Airlines is shifting its strategy to focus on premium flyers after a mixed earnings report revealed declining quarterly profits despite record annual revenue.

Southwest Airlines ends its 55-year-old open seating policy, replacing it with an assigned-seating system to generate new revenue.

Amazon agrees to a $2.5 billion settlement with the FTC over allegations it used deceptive 'dark patterns' to trap users in Prime subscriptions.

Capital One joins the Federal Reserve's FedNow network, leaving Bank of America as the last major U.S. bank not participating in the real-time payments system.

PayPal reports strong Q3 profits with revenue up 7%, but faces a 5% decline in total payment transactions, indicating slowing user engagement.

A new study finds that when banks catch a fraudster, the victim becomes 62% less likely to leave than customers who never experienced fraud.

PwC Partner George Korizis discusses the 50-point perception gap on customer loyalty that shows leaders are mistaking investment activity for genuine customer outcomes.

Nissan's Head of Data Product, Jivesh Juneja, on simplifying the company's complex CX framework to a three-stage 'try, buy, use' model to align its marketing, sales, and service teams.

A new Ricoh survey reveals over 80% of consumers remain loyal to companies that prioritize human interaction, viewing it as a key competitive advantage.

A new report from the World Travel & Tourism Council warns the global travel and tourism industry faces a 43 million-person labor shortage by 2035.

Citigroup mandates AI prompt-writing training for 180,000 employees to enhance their use of internal generative AI tools.

First Citizens Bank acquires 138 branches from BMO, a deal that includes approximately $5.7 billion in deposits and $1.1 billion in loans.

Bank of America deploys a new generative AI assistant, AskGPS, for its corporate payments division to provide instant answers to client questions.

How can banks safely adopt agentic AI? Khushboo Mishra, Assistant Vice President at HSBC, lays out a multi-year roadmap for navigating regulatory hurdles and transforming the finance workforce.

Peter Chapman, CTO of Grasshopper Bank, on "client's data" and cautious, customer-led strategy for safely rolling out new LLM-powered financial tools for businesses.

Macy's stock surged over 20% after second-quarter earnings exceeded Wall Street estimates, driven by improved in-store customer experiences.

Wise is exploring becoming a fully-regulated UK bank to expand into lending and traditional banking services.

JetBlue partners with Amazon's Project Kuiper to upgrade inflight Wi-Fi, becoming the first airline to adopt the satellite service.

Open banking in the UK reaches over 15 million users, marking a significant milestone in its mainstream adoption.

Banks are rejecting micro-business loan applications at five times the rate of large enterprises due to poor data quality.

A new report from checkout.com and YouGov said U.S. consumers show significant skepticism towards digital payments.

OpenAI released its most advanced speech-to-speech model, gpt-realtime, making its Realtime API generally available for developers.