New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human

Re:New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a ... by embedding-shape on Friday August 07, 2026 @08:39AM (#49209514)

> I'd be enjoying my morning coffee in my backyard, sitting on my bench with the neighbor's calico meowing at me, when fully automatic gunfire would ring out. I'd go to the Facebook group page, where people with military or gun experience would identify the type and caliber of the weapons involved. Then came the pictures of people's cars sprayed with bullet holes, and a story about someone lying in bed when a bullet whizzed over them and hit the opposite wall.

Given you lived there for years, like how do you do that, staying there for so long? I'd avoid a place like that if I even thought stuff like that was going on there in the first place, but if I ever ended up in a place like that anyway, one instance of that happening would make me leave and move away from there immediately, anything is better than experiencing stuff like that even once, even less twice or more.

There lives a ton of people in New Orleans, I'm guessing most of them are also as jaded/used to it as you? It's really hard for me to comprehend how so many people just get used to such constant needless violence around them, it sounds like a war zone to me, and people just... go to work and live a generally happy life while that just happens often? It's so foreign to me, and you write so casually about it, and people stay there?!

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Re:New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a ... by ElevenLathe on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:16AM (#49211761)

I've lived in cities not quite as bad as this (one of my earliest memories is my Dad pulling the family to the floor during a drive by right across the street), but the main thing to remember is that unless you catch a stray -- not impossible, but pretty unlikely as long as you hit the deck fast -- nobody is coming for you specifically. These are specific disputes about specific things (drugs, family, whatever) that don't involve you. It's not a school shooter who just wants to rack up kills. Stay down, mind your own business, and you'll be pretty safe.

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Re:New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a ... by fooqux on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:27AM (#49210970)

It's amazing what you can get used to.

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