I hope this is at least done with GPT Live or equivalent, not some cheap shitty model.

(but in general, it sounds like a bad idea, it's too early for this!)

How long until people die ?

Probably people are dying already - fund the system properly, it may just be more obvious when they die now as the AI will have textual logging thats more easy to search.

Actual title: New Orleans gives up on 911. 'It's just not that important.'

This might improve swatting

Handling 911 calls is THE worst idea of AI usage, considering its current state of maturity.

What could possibly go wrong?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105190

If they think they will save money here on human dispatchers, they could not be more wrong, this will be sued into oblivion after first few deaths caused by AI incompetence to deal with non-standard situations. And I am afraid the worst part is the people who greenflagged this, will walk free.

In case of major event they could just use prerecorded message at the beginning of the call to give people some simple advices for those who can call later, that's what we did in insurance claims department when the line was overloaded. By my experience sometmes dealing with pretty non-standard stuff + now experiences dealing with AI daily for work, this will 100% go wrong despite whatever their press release says about 100% success rate in 3 months (does anyone believe 100% rate?).

All AI hallucinates. What could possibly go wrong.

"Greetings and salutations. Welcome to the emergency line of the San Angeles Police Department. If you would prefer an automated response, press 1 now"

And once again we have to pinch ourselves and marvel at our timeline where genuine news headlines and those from The Onion are utterly indistinguishable.