Whoever is pushing this bullshit needs to be drowned in a barn drainage ditch brought back and then have it done again, keep repeating until either their lungs are caked in cow shit or whatever few braincells they have are dead.
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Next, all stealth bombers will be upgraded to AI, making them fully unmanned.
And next you lose them
Kehoe countered that the AI system would interact only with nonemergency callers and that emergency calls to 911 would be routed only to human dispatchers. In fact, she added, “on nonemergency calls, it might detect those elevated stress levels [for callers] and it will automatically default going to a human being as well.”
Are nonemergency calls coming in through a separate number or are they still coming in through the 911 number? I thought nonemergency calls come through a separate number but i only see references to 911 in this article. So which is it? If you call 911 and get an AI then that's terrible. If this is for a dedicated nonemergency line then this sounds great.
My local PD has a non emergency number, but it is almost always answered by 911.
I used to have to call the non emergency number a few times a month for a previous job.
The calls were always answered by 911 operators, but they would place you on hold if a 911 call came through. No big deal
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Saly lake city Residents, shouldn't be paying taxes then.
I think this would only be acceptable if the "AI-assisted" system kicks in when call volumes are high (when dispatchers are overburdened with calls).
For anyone that's been in a situation where you're frantically trying to get ahold of 911, and you have to make 10 calls to do so, a system like this would have been really useful to help relieve whatever call volumes situation was going on at the time. At least in my experience it didn't matter too much because the guy had already been dead for a bit.
And for those of you who are dispatchers, I get it, it can be frustrating to get 911 calls all the time for the most ridiculous of reasons, but still I think it would be best if a system like this only kicks in when necessary.
Being able to talk to a human right away is way better than essentially being asked to "press 1 if this is really an emergency, press 2 if this is not an emergency".