Analysis Questions AI's Impact on White-Collar Jobs as Customer Service Employment Rebounds
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Summary
The article critiques the narrative that AI will cause mass white-collar job displacement, arguing that despite AI advancements, customer service job postings have rebounded to near pre-pandemic levels. It questions why companies haven't replaced human workers with AI if the technology is as capable as claimed, suggesting the AI apocalypse narrative may be exaggerated. The piece presents data showing customer service employment recovery and challenges the timeline of AI's supposed rapid advancement.
Key quotes
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Customer Support market must be obliterated by now? Except it is bouncing back since the middle of 2025 and is now just below the pre-Covid levels (aka normal levels)
There were two years (which is a millennia for a 100x engineer) during which companies could have connected a heavily subsidized OpenAI model to a RAG and just fired everyone
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