Thinking Skills Don’t Protect Service Workers from Replacement by Artificial Intelligence

Despite the documented benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the service industry, the service employees’ fear of being replaced by AI continues to be a major concern as we transition to the Feeling Economy. This paper builds upon the Feeling Economy framework and the social comparison theory...

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Published in:Journal of service research : JSR 2022-11, Vol.25 (4), p.601-613
Main Authors: Vorobeva, Darina, El Fassi, Yasmina, Costa Pinto, Diego, Hildebrand, Diogo, Herter, Márcia M., Mattila, Anna S.
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