Shares of Teleperformance plunged 23% on Thursday, after the French call center and office services group missed its full-year revenue target and flagged a "volatile economic environment."
Teleperformance shares dropped 16% last week, according to LSEG data, after Swedish financial services company Klarna said its Open AI-powered customer service assistant was handling two-thirds of customer service calls.
But Teleperformance CEO Daniel Julien on Thursday said that AI would be a positive for its business model — and that it will never fully replace the value of human interaction.
"AI is part of the solutions we provide to the clients," Julien told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe."
So we perceive AI as enhancing the job that our human employees do, but absolutely not replacing them."
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