Suumit Shah, a 31-year-old CEO of an e-commerce platform called Dukaan based in India, is getting torn to shreds online for firing 90 percent of the company’s customer support staff after arguing that an AI chatbot had outperformed them.
It was an unusually callous announcement that clearly didn’t sit well with plenty of netizens, as Insider reports.
“We had to layoff [sic] 90 percent of our support team because of this AI chatbot,” he tweeted. “Tough? Yes. Necessary? Absolutely.”
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