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The confidence threshold that decides whether a case resolves automatically or escalates to a human is the central tuning point that trades automation errors against human-agent cost.

Raising the escalation threshold reduces automated errors but increases human workload and cost, while lowering it cuts cost but admits more mistakes involving money. ✦ AI generated

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Raise the threshold, and the system escalates more often, which guards against autonomous errors while increasing the load on human agents and the cost that comes with it. Lower the threshold, and the system resolves more cases on its own, which trims cost while admitting more mistakes in situations that involve money.

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