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Klarna and customer service
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- 0:00Klarna's chief executive said artificial
- 0:02intelligence could already do every job
- 0:04a human does.
- 0:05>> [music]
- 0:05>> In early 2024, Klarna's AI assistant,
- 0:08built with OpenAI, did the work of 700
- 0:10agents [music] in its first month, 2.3
- 0:12million conversations, 2/3 of all
- 0:15[music] customer service chats.
- 0:16Resolution time fell from 11 minutes to
- 0:18under two. He said [music] Klarna had
- 0:20stopped hiring altogether. Its workforce
- 0:22was nearly cut in half. Then the quality
- 0:24slipped. In May 2025, he told Bloomberg
- 0:27that cost had become too big [music] a
- 0:29factor. What you end up having, he said,
- 0:30is lower quality. So Klarna started
- 0:33hiring people [music] back, students,
- 0:34rural workers, fully remote. Now the
- 0:37machine takes the simple questions and a
- 0:38person takes the ones that need [music]
- 0:40judgment. The company that told the
- 0:41world AI could replace everyone became
- 0:43the proof that it can't, [music] not
- 0:45yet.
- 0:46Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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