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Pure Cope
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Processes customer transactions including deposits, withdrawals, and account services.
Bank tellers should have seen this 10 years ago: ATMs, mobile deposits, digital wallets all preceded this AI wave. Now you're handling exceptions to an automated system while your institution's machine learning literally learns to handle your exceptions. 'Upskilling to financial advisor' assumes your bank won't hire cheaper advisors from grad school instead. The consolation story—'we still need humans for complex products'—applies to maybe 8% of branch transactions. Gradualism is the longest cope: the transition has been happening since 1997.