Incident 639: Customer Overcharged Due to Air Canada Chatbot's False Discount Claims
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Air Canada must pay a passenger hundreds of dollars in damages after its online chatbot gave the guy wrong information before he booked a flight.
Jake Moffatt took the airline to a small-claims tribunal after the biz refused to refund him f…
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After his grandmother died in Ontario a few years ago, British Columbia resident Jake Moffatt visited Air Canada's website to book a flight for the funeral. He received assistance from a chatbot, which told him the airline offered reduced r…
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Artificial intelligence is having a growing impact on the way we travel, and a remarkable new case shows what AI-powered chatbots can get wrong – and who should pay. In 2022, Air Canada's chatbot promised a discount that wasn't available to…
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