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Verizon CEO Expects AI to Eliminate Most Customer Service Jobs

Company plans to replace large percentage of customer service workforce with artificial intelligence.

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Existential criticality
Does the threat involve irreversible systemic failure?
Probability vectoring
Theoretical, or active proof of concept?
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