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This will kill people.

People will die.

Grok911, what is your emergency and do you know about the genocide of white South Africans?

What could go wrong

Everyone should read before reacting:

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.

This makes sense. A big thing happens that you are aware of. Geolocated calls from that area flood in. An operator, who could be getting useful info, has to handle a flood of "Guess what I just saw!"

Note that I think they should spend the money on more operators instead, but at least this seems like it has good guardrails.

:sigh: Yet again, nobody reads the fucking article and it is VERY obvious from most of the comments. If you can't be bothered, then don't fucking comment.

If you had READ the article: They're answering with the AI saying like "Are you calling about X?" If the callers says no, they are transferred to a human. If they ARE calling about an incident, then they can get updates and information about it.

Now, I grant that this is still not perfect, but the stated goal is humans spending less time talking to people reporting an incident already reported so they can actually talk to people needing help faster.

Assuming that works out, this is actually a good idea and an improvement.

Now, if you wanna be cynical about it, fine. But just read the damn article and be cynical about what's actually happening, not about what you think from the headline, or all you end up looking like an ass.

I came into the comments to have a good discussion on the issue. I should have known better. I'm so irritated by the majority of comments that I lost interested in the topic itself, even though there's at least one ofther comment I saw also pointing out what the article says. But no, the majority of you can't be bothered, so screw this. And you bitch about reddit.

Fortunately those most directly involved in the decision have put their names on record to be held criminally accountable should any deaths occur that might have been avoided by the use of human operators and have thereby promised not to fade into the background when it all goes wrong.

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People are going to die because of that, even if AI is merely handling call "triage".

You are absolutely right to call me out on that. He did break in, and he is now stabbing you. I will adjust for this in the future. Is there anything else I can help you with?

This certainly couldn't go wrong

This is exhausting y'all. God I fucking hate LLMs so much. This tech could be such a exciting break through, a step towards real artificial intelligence, but stuck in academia where it belongs. Instead of getting to be excited and interested this inanimate compilation of matrices is breathing down my neck constantly.

What could possibly go wrong?

Capitalism creating situations that won't outright be responsible for murder, but will definitely increase deaths among vulnerable people.

Evolution selecting for good capitalists.

So now we're at the stage of killing people directly, got it!

Working my way through Person of Interest again. Just watched one where a search company was directing suicidal inquiries to ads instead of helplines. And that was before they get bought by the evil AI overlord. Its surreal seeing Palantir, Flock and all the tech companies race to implement a dystopia no sane person would ever want and there is so little push back. What the fuck is wrong with regular people?

Press 1 if your being raped press 2 if someone is trying to kill you please hold.

Can I get desperately needed help please??? N.O.

Jfc such abysmal concern for human life

Fuck this is dark.

If the people profiting from this were to be executed when the system cost the first human life, it wouldn't make it to a proposal.

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Easy fix:

• Find the person who introduced this
• Wait until the moment they go live with this
• Cause an emergency that involves said person
• Problemo solved

I predict a dramatic increase in the number of suicides. Specifically among those desperately calling 911 for help.

If anyone bothered to read the article, it's not nearly as stupid as it sounds. That's not to say it's a good idea, just that not nearly as dumb as people are making it out to be.

It's designed specifically to handle multiple callers who are calling about existing/known incidents, as a tool to relieve human operators, and simply gather additional details, or provide information to the callers.

So while I can't say that I'm in favor of it, the actual scope of deployment is much different than what the headline would have you believe.

Wow! With all the calls in NOLA… seems like one of the dumbest things to use during someone’s emergency! What if someone was being kidnapped and an open line and the AI voice is going to try to keep talking therefore, killing the individual because they heard the damn AI voice repeating shit to try to answer the call!

People are going to die and many civil suits and wrongful death suits are going to be filed and TAX payers are going to have to pay for each damn suit! So in the long run… NO AI for a damn EMERGENCY LINE! This will NOT save money or lives!!

Bro what

Setting aside the obvious, what's the worst that can happen?

What could possibly go wrong?

There will be plenty of lawsuits in the Red Run Louisiana Oblast.

Sure, what could possibly go wrong?