Yes. So many. Everyone involved in this decision, on both the legislative and corporate sides, needs to get the fucking wall.

But it's new Orleans, so some of the difficult to emotionally comprehend number of deaths it causes might at least be funny.

Yeah, I can just imagine how well a "AI" would deal with a situation like this when they can't even operate a drive-thru properly.

But...just think how many money they can save! You are being selfish!

/s

They know it will. They don’t care.

Would you like to read some Lolita fanfic while I’m thinking?

You need to immitate their accent to receive premium service.

"Please help! I'm trapped in a basement and there's a man with a gun!"

"Wow! I think it's great that you're looking to leave your comfort zone. There's a lot to see outside the basement, so it's good to broaden your horizons. There are a few options to solve your predicament that we can workshop together. First, are you stuck behind a door, or are you physically incapable of moving? In both cases, I think your best bet is to ask the man with the gun to lend a hand. If there is a door in the way, the man with the gun can shoot out the lock and open that door in no time. But if you aren't able to move, I'd say the man could help carry you out of that basement, too. While we wait for the man to assist, would you like some basement decorating ideas to make your current situation more pleasant?"

"No you don't understand, he is trying to kill me!"

"Wow, that is a lot to unpack! It seems like you believe this man means you harm, but you don't seem to have any logical basis for those feelings. Based on the circumstances, it sounds like you may be misinterpreting helpful vibes as scary due to flaws in your social perception, which could indicate an unhealthy pattern of self-destructive behavior. The first step to help always starts from within, but I can recommend some local therapists in your area who could better address the feelings you have in the long term."

Yeah but it's just poor people so who cares. Look at the sweet pool the AI company bought whoever approved this!

That’s the point. It’s cheaper than dealing with what is coming.

They know this and they don’t care.

How many? And how does that number compare to how many people died due to call volume surges before implementing this triage tech?

The Farquuad meme

"Some if you may die, but its a sacrifice I am willing to make"

They won't ever be held accountable by any legal process.

I love it.

All of the movies and novels warning of danger from AI, news of AI convincing people kill themselves, suggesting 'remedies' that would cause someone to die, or going wrong in some other way... and they decide it would be a great plan to have it answer emergency calls from people who could be in the process of being stabbed to death.

Why? Because it's cheaper than hiring enough people to do that job.

The nature of the job means that's very literally deciding that it's better for more people to die than to increase the budget for 911 operators.

Even more than this one instance, it's the same reason that AI is running pretty much everything and the streets are full of AI-powered robots when things go wrong in all of those movies and books. Because it's cheaper than paying a person to do it.

I can't think of any examples even in science fiction stories where the richest people in the world create AI and robotics and manage to automate pretty much all human labor in order to cut costs that end right there with "and then the super rich now in direct control of all production and society divided their wealth and power evenly among all humans and everyone lived happily ever after."

That's just to unrealistic, even for fiction.

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Brilliant. I can't wait for all the false calls they will generate with this tech too and then use it as excuse to Gestapo and sent people to the prison camps.

This tech could be such a exciting break through, a step towards real artificial intelligence

No, not really lol.

The best analogy for this that I've heard is that it's like saying elevators are a step towards teleporters. Calling it "intelligence" is a marketing coup. It is not intelligence, artificial or otherwise.

And of course the oligarchy hiring PMCs.

This is borderline outright responsible for murder. Maybe not exactly but so close its hard to tell it apart.

You have selected "regicide". If you know the name of the king or queen being murdered, press 1...

Yeah except we live in a capitalism dystopian hellhole. The people who brought this idea to fruition will be celebrated by the Epstein Class; for saving money and getting rid of the poors.

This is Louisiana. The cost in human life was a selling point everywhere except official documents.

[Waning consciousness] ...help...

Sure! I can help you with that!
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[Death]

Would you like to learn more about the different species of oak around the world?

But higher satisfaction from those calling 911 for cookie recipes!

But universal healthcare leads to death panels or something.....

You're not wrong. Swatting in that area is going to be so easy. United States police force has already shown for years now that if AI says anything they'll just go with it and not question it. So if someone lives in the area and you want them 'dealt with' by the police, it's going to be very easy. And the police aren't going to look into it or hold themselves accountable. And the AI won't be questioned or removed. If this goes large scale you can just make an API... Don't like someone on twitch, well when you know it there will be an app for that...

Except that could be done without AI. Just have a recording that says "we are aware of ... taking place near you, are you calling about this ? “, then answer with yes/no.

No need for bullshit AI.

You don't need AI for that. Automated phone answering systems do exist, and can redirect people.

How many operators to handle say 100 calls in 5 minutes? Now imagine the cost to staff a small 911 center to ensure your can handle those calls 24/7. The money doesn't exist.

Butts in seats don't exist right now either. As long as the fancy ivr allows the caller to reach a human with minimal effort, this seems like a scary sounding but neat assistant solution to a problem without a real solution.

I wish this were pinned at the top. It seems like almost nobody reads beyond the headline.

And if someone tries to call with new unreported information about an already reported incident? Decision tree or geolocation routes caller to recorded information. No way of knowing if information is important or not without talking to the caller first. Possible downside is far greater than possible benefits.

Edit Multiple calls about shots in neighborhood, if victim is last to call are they forced to listen to an update before triage allows transfer? No sir I don't like it.

Maybe this is an improvement in this location, but as many have said a staffing issue.

Functional societies have costs, often those costs are far less than dysfunctional societies.

Joe's Apartment, the 911 call center be like

The people responding to emergencies will be notified by AI slop with no human filter.

It seems like they're doing this because they are prioritizating the public safety aspect of the job, no?

"You're absolutely right. I did hallucinate sending an ambulance, more than once, earlier. Let me correct that and dispatch an ambulance to your location."

"This is intended to handle the increase of calls that are related to one incident, so callers get automatically routed to an AI agent who asks if they are calling regarding the incident. If the answer is yes, then callers can receive information or updates, and if it's no, then the callers are transferred to a human."

Imagine being in a life or death situation or delerious and having to now decode what the AI is asking you about whether or not this is "regarding the incident"?

How does that even work? Is it gonna be like " oh hey, is this about the rape at 100 Rfucked Lane?"

More likely "we noticed you said that this is about a wreck. We've determined that this is about the same wreck we are already getting calls about (because no way two or more wrecks would occur on the highway the same day) so please go ahead and leave any new information here!" And its just a robot.

Imagine trying to whisper that you are in immediate danger and some AI is like "I didn't catch that, could you please speak up" forcing you to talk full volume into the phone. Or, maybe you're screaming too loud where a human can make sense of it but an AI is just hallucinating what it thinks you're saying.

It's a horrible idea and 20 years ago I would say I am shocked but not anymore. They don't care about us.