Did Klarna really replace its customer service team with AI?
Klarna built its AI chatbot to handle the workload of roughly 700 human agents and made it central to its IPO narrative. After customer satisfaction reportedly dropped, Klarna walked the strategy back and began rehiring human staff to handle the complex, emotional cases the bot couldn't manage.
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