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Can AI actually run customer service or logistics without humans?

Not reliably, for now. AI handles high-volume, low-ambiguity tasks well but struggles with edge cases, emotional nuance, and adversarial human behavior — exactly the situations that define real customer service and logistics operations. Most durable deployments keep a human escalation path rather than removing it.

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Crashtech Editorial July 3, 2026 AI Business & Money

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