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Australian bank rehires workers replaced by AI after "lying" about chatbot success

Australian bank rehires workers replaced by AI after "lying" about chatbot success

Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing
Aug 22, 2025
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia must rehire 45 workers it fired and replaced with an AI chatbot. A financial services union there describes the result as a "massive win" and a warning about misuse of the technology. The bank had announced that its new AI chatbot had reduced call volumes by 2,000 a week, allowing it to make the workers redundant, but …

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