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People Are Making AI Agents Handle Their Customer-Service Calls

Published

24 September 2026

Topic

opportunities

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Enterprise Software

◆ Geography

United States

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Fusion42 · 24 September 2026 · Fusion42 review

AI agents are increasingly being used by consumers to handle customer service calls, including negotiating bills and canceling subscriptions, presenting new challenges for call centers in identifying and interacting with AI rather than human customers.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Enterprise Software.

◆ ◆ The Wire takeaway

AI bots are becoming active customers on calls, forcing you, a customer service platform founder, to build tools that detect and authenticate AI agents or create new workflows accommodating non-human callers.

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1 source · 24 Sep 2026

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Enterprise Softwareai-agentscustomer-servicecall-centersautomationfraud-risk