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Designing an AI That Knows How to Say Sorry

Alexander Eng (Radio Interview)

More businesses are letting AI make decisions that directly affect customers, including how they handle complaints. But does a bot apology land the same way as a person’s? Alexander Eng, Associate Professor at Asia School of Business, tells us what an effective AI-powered complaints system should actually look like, from giving customers a real channel to flag or push back on a decision, to the mistake recognition and acknowledgements that customers want to hear.