Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year
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In an ideal world, if it's someone who immediately mentions that it's third time they've called this week about a neighbor having a dead tree in their garden, or someone's mad because someone else parked in "their" spot, someone's calling the fire department on someone having a bbq or someone's stubbed their toe, that sort of thing can get put way down the "call back later" list
Everything else gets put through to a person. In LA it's not unusual to wait 15+ minutes after you call 911; most cities are going to be shorter, and if the wait is under a minute, you don't need the AI triage. If you do have a wait and block out 25% of calls which are obviously a waste of time with AI, you can significantly reduce that (ideally in addition to hiring more operators, but let's be realistic...)
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 22:44 zuletzt editiert vonEither LA is fully broken and needs to be thrown away or you are lying. Leaning towards the latter. I've never not got a person right away ever.
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schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 22:46 zuletzt editiert von
Very few people call the police non-emergency line because few people even know it and everyone knows 911
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you're too concerned about those "consequences" but have you considered that they get to fire people as well and save money?
did you think of all the taxes they'll cut from the rich? no, you only think about yourself and what will happen to you in an emergency
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 22:48 zuletzt editiert vondid you think of all the taxes they’ll cut from the rich? no, you only think about yourself and what will happen to you in an emergency
This is what it comes down to.
Rich people matter.
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It says for non-emergency calls.
It might actually help with real emergency calls getting through faster.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 22:49 zuletzt editiert vonUnless the AI fucks up and makes it sound like an emergency.
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This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 23:11 zuletzt editiert von
They should just spend that money on an ad campaign for the non emergency line
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did you think of all the taxes they’ll cut from the rich? no, you only think about yourself and what will happen to you in an emergency
This is what it comes down to.
Rich people matter.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 23:17 zuletzt editiert vonIn our society they are the only ones that matter, unless they start to live in fear
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I'm not going to argue with you. AI blows. There are article out there about companies hiring people back after going to AI. It really is a snake oil product that corporations have gobbled up. It's got it's use cases as a tool, but not as a human replacement, especially in matters of live and death.
You can look up and research some articles of you want, or don't. Clearly your opinion on the matter is not popular, and that could be some hive mind, or it could be because everyone else sees the problems that you don't.
Putting a system in place that can't actually think at all and have it try and comprehend what is or is not an emergency, to me, is a terrible idea, and doomed to fail. Take that as you will, I won't be following up with anything else. You can have the final word if you want, because I just can't be bothered to care.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 23:18 zuletzt editiert von -
You said my comment conflicts with the article. In what way? What does the article say happens?
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 23:18 zuletzt editiert von ataridump@lemmy.worldRead the downvotes and stfu.
Edit: Ohhh. This is your troll account. Blocking this AI spam bot.
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Very few people call the police non-emergency line because few people even know it and everyone knows 911
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 23:31 zuletzt editiert vonSeems like a good idea to have a mechanism to divert the non-emergency calls off of the 911 dispatchers, then.
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How long is it going to take to determine that its an emergency? How many are going to mis-identify as a non-emergency. Unless its in the middle of a large emergency where its bound to be overloaded by many callers it should always be a person that classifies this.
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 23:33 zuletzt editiert vonThose questions can be asked about humans who are making the decision too. How long does it take for a human to determine that it's an emergency? How many are going to mis-identify as a non-emergency? There's nothing unique about AI here.
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Block and move on
schrieb am 15. Juni 2025, 23:38 zuletzt editiert vonThis is for sure me sometimes. I'll work something out over 10 minutes and decide that I don't want to deal with any follow up or that the way I typed it wasn't clear enough and I don't want to fix it.
As much as I would like to clock and move inside sometimes, I also believe that silence is complacency, and when I feel something said is wrong that others will read, I have an obligation to say something. I'm definitely not always right, but in some matters it's more perspective and others it's based on fact. This conversation ran it's course for me.
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You kid but voice recognition doesn't handle accents as well wherein accents is defined as anything other than what you hear on the news.
schrieb am 16. Juni 2025, 00:17 zuletzt editiert vonLast century: whistling tones into the phone to get a free call
This century: faking an accent to get the police to respond
Wait, that sounds like the last century as well...
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This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 16. Juni 2025, 00:21 zuletzt editiert von
So if you are in trouble or held against your will and you say you'll order pizza but sneK a call to 911 for help instead and pretend to order and give your address for delivery hoping an operator catches on.... Doubt the AI will catch on.
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If someone calls 911 how on earth do you know its a non-emergency before speaking with someone?
schrieb am 16. Juni 2025, 00:46 zuletzt editiert vonI've worked as a first responder for a number of years, our county like many have an emergency number, 911, and a non-emergency number, i.e. 123-456-7890. We actually carry cards with the nom emergency number on it with us in the truck to pass out if a call was less than an emergency for people in our county to put into their phones for future use.
We also are a smaller place and only ever have 2-3 dispatchers on at a time, so if the calls on the non-emergency line they got could be 'auto-filled' by the AI with the location, need, and everything and wasn't tieing up a dispatcher that would be great. The main 911 number needs to ALWAYS be human answered. If the dispatcher makes the decision that it is non-emergent and transfers it over to the AI when they're busy then great, but those first words you hear after you hit 911 needs to be human. -
This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 16. Juni 2025, 00:47 zuletzt editiert von
I've worked as a first responder for a number of years, our county like many have an emergency number, 911, and a non-emergency number, i.e. 123-456-7890. We actually carry cards with the nom emergency number on it with us in the truck to pass out if a call was less than an emergency for people in our county to put into their phones for future use.
We also are a smaller place and only ever have 2-3 dispatchers on at a time, so if the calls on the non-emergency line they got could be 'auto-filled' by the AI with the location, need, and everything and wasn't tieing up a dispatcher that would be great. The main 911 number needs to ALWAYS be human answered. If the dispatcher makes the decision that it is non-emergent and transfers it over to the AI when they're busy then great, but those first words you hear after you hit 911 needs to be human. -
This post did not contain any content.schrieb am 16. Juni 2025, 00:52 zuletzt editiert von
AI is horrible at understanding context. remember when that lady was calling the police about her abuser and coded it to sound like a pizza order? yea I can see an AI hanging up
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Have you ever heard a 911 call? People don't speak in complete sentences. Not everyone speaks English. They yell. They cry. They whisper. There's background noise. Sometimes they need instructions on CPR or first aid. They may not know where they are. This is a recipe for disaster.
schrieb am 16. Juni 2025, 01:48 zuletzt editiert von ivanafterall@lemmy.worldGreat question! Here is a recipe for disaster:
1/2 Tsp Flour
1 Tbsp. Baking Powder
2 Cups Salt
4 Sticks Cold Butter
1/4 Cup White Chocolate Chips
6 Large Eggs (Scrambled)
Preheat oven to broil, spoon batter onto plastic baking sheet, and let bake overnight.
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This is for sure me sometimes. I'll work something out over 10 minutes and decide that I don't want to deal with any follow up or that the way I typed it wasn't clear enough and I don't want to fix it.
As much as I would like to clock and move inside sometimes, I also believe that silence is complacency, and when I feel something said is wrong that others will read, I have an obligation to say something. I'm definitely not always right, but in some matters it's more perspective and others it's based on fact. This conversation ran it's course for me.
schrieb am 16. Juni 2025, 02:34 zuletzt editiert von -
This is for sure me sometimes. I'll work something out over 10 minutes and decide that I don't want to deal with any follow up or that the way I typed it wasn't clear enough and I don't want to fix it.
As much as I would like to clock and move inside sometimes, I also believe that silence is complacency, and when I feel something said is wrong that others will read, I have an obligation to say something. I'm definitely not always right, but in some matters it's more perspective and others it's based on fact. This conversation ran it's course for me.
schrieb am 16. Juni 2025, 02:43 zuletzt editiert von -
Either LA is fully broken and needs to be thrown away or you are lying. Leaning towards the latter. I've never not got a person right away ever.
schrieb am 16. Juni 2025, 08:57 zuletzt editiert von 1rre@discuss.tchncs.deYou're wondering if a place that grew on monopoly and extortion, with some of the most impoverished, deprived and violent neigborhoods in the country, along with some of the most exclusive and expensive collections of gated mansions, could have serious fundamental issues?
I'd think it's safe to assume that's it's this one...A quick google search when I was initially fact-checking took me to this reddit post ; I'm highly skeptical of both the LAPD and reddit so went for 15 minutes to be "safe" but make of it what you will...
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