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FQ AI Summit 2026

Give Customer Service Staff a Way to Correct the System

My notes from attending the FQ AI Summit in New York, November 10, 2026.

Accountability, Reskilling and Process Change

How should customer service employees report recurring AI mistakes?

Give customer service employees a short correction record and someone with the authority to act on it. Record what the AI got wrong and where the right answer comes from, and keep customer information out of it.

The accountability discussion included separating routine service requests from cases that need a person. The employees who get those cases need a way to improve the underlying process too, and a correction record is one way to do that.

Keep the record short. Include the category of request, the incorrect guidance and the approved answer or source. Collect no more of the conversation than the review requires.

Next comes an owner. Someone has to be able to change the reference material, routing rule or workflow behind the mistake. I'd name that person before anyone starts filling in records, because a feedback box with no one responsible for acting on it becomes another place employees describe the same problem.

When the owner makes a change, tell the frontline team it's ready. Test the original case and related cases before you call it fixed, and check whether the correction creates a new problem somewhere else.

Track repeated issues separately from one time exceptions. Repeats show where the service needs better information or a narrower scope. Employees shouldn't have to become a permanent repair layer for an error the organization already understands.