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EMS is not being handed over to AI. Please read the article, it's about using AI to triage non-emergency calls away from the emergency lines so that the human call staff at the emergency lines are not being kept busy dealing with the non-emergency stuff.
So they are asking a virtual roulette wheel to make the determination if it's an emergency or not.
Modern AI is not a "virtual roulette wheel."
And if you'll read the article, it mentions that they don't have enough staff to handle all the calls they're getting. They have job openings that people simply aren't applying for, it's not a question of funding. They're getting too many phone calls to handle and many of those phone calls should not be going to them in the first place. What should they do?
It's called capitalism. If you can't hire anyone, maybe the pay sucks.