I Spent 4 Hours at an AI Summit. Nobody Mentioned the Customer.

I Spent 4 Hours at an AI Summit. Nobody Mentioned the Customer.

From 15 Minutes Customer Obsession by Peggy Amelung

May 4, 2026 · 18 min · Season 2 · Episode 163

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Peggy Amelung discusses the implications of AI on customer service and the importance of human connection in business.

👉 NEW EPISODES COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER. The CEO of the company that builds AI just told the world: customer service will be gone in 24 months. And the room applauded. I was at that AI Summit. Four hours. Efficiency, automation, scale, disruption. Not once did anyone ask: what happens to the customer? That silence is not a gap in the agenda. That silence is the problem. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic: Half of entry-level white-collar jobs — including customer service — will vanish in 24 months. He's right. But precise about what: the transaction disappears. The connection doesn't. Scarcity creates value. Genuine human connection is about to become the scarcest thing in business. What We Cover in This Episode 6 insights from the AI Summit — and what Peggy adds to each one Experimental State vs. Identity State — the two things every company needs to run simultaneously Why more tools ≠ more efficiency — and the 14% cognitive load research Why the manager layer is where transformation compounds or dies AI Champions — and why every company also needs GHX Champions The new job description: combining human force and AI force to succeed "AI creates efficiency. Humans create…

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