Author: Chris Knight

  • Avoiding Chatbot Crime: The Burden of Proof on Your Chatbot and Its Users

    Avoiding Chatbot Crime: The Burden of Proof on Your Chatbot and Its Users

    Cyber crime, deep fakes, AI heists and political hacks all help to reduce our trust in technology. Chatbots will be on the frontline in the next generation of customer/consumer crime, and your bot needs to be ready with a range of bona fides to create and build trust. If you are at work in your…

  • Gatwick’s Chatbot Just the Latest in Aviation Bots

    Gatwick’s Chatbot Just the Latest in Aviation Bots

    Gatwick Airport joins the growing number of aviation businesses making use of chatbots to help guide their huge numbers of customers around those sprawling hallways and to the right gate on time, with a refreshing display of commitment and business smarts. Last year, London’s second busiest runway at Gatwick Airport was thrown into chaos by…

  • The Risks of Chatbot Data Breaches and Privacy Issues Made Clear

    The Risks of Chatbot Data Breaches and Privacy Issues Made Clear

    With the news that Data Airline is filing a lawsuit against its chatbot provider, among endless IT breaches and disasters, the reality is now starkly clear that chatbots need to be secure and well-managed to protect the business and customers. The cloud is so easy and seductive, sign up for a service, create something amazing…

  • Chatbots Unlocking Customer Value and More as Technology Improves

    Chatbots Unlocking Customer Value and More as Technology Improves

    As with other aspects of customer-technology, first there was the task, then came the data and then the need to manage and use it properly. Customer spreadsheets and databases became CRM tools, point of sales records became data for recommendation engines and marketing, and so on. The same is true with chatbots, as businesses look…

  • 5 Reasons Why Chatbot Coaches Will Dominate the Personal Support Industry

    5 Reasons Why Chatbot Coaches Will Dominate the Personal Support Industry

    Wellness and financial sanity-check coaches are already flocking to app stores, heralding a huge rise in the use of chatbots as part of the booming “advice” category. The lure of charging customers for using them via subscriptions, or for a business to automate the “wellness” part of their HR system makes a compelling case. Having…

  • Bots and AI Starring in Movies and Literature

    Bots and AI Starring in Movies and Literature

    Virtual reality, smartphones, gaming, even viruses have long been a staple plot feature of the movies, from the new Jumanji to The Lawnmower Man. Now chatbots and AI tools are officially a thing, that means Hollywood, book writers and TV shows are happy to promote use them as ways to stir the plot and for…