Room to Live
ShortStory 3,533 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"I repeat a chatbot to customers who “want to talk to a human.” Here’s how it works: someone, somewhere presses “talk to a human” on one of our client-company websites, and my phone lights up. The call script prints out for me to read. “Hello, JewelSky Customer Support, this is Jasmine, how may I help you?”
Quasar links out; the story lives on Analog, where the author gets the click.