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@katzenberger @rail the incident was reported to the vendor, and they are looking at it. Of course, such things should be taken seriously.

@aadeacon here the fire brigade is alerted automatically as well. If I understand correctly, the building owner cannot deactivate the alarm without the fire brigade.

@maxsz no, nothing serious!

As it gets much more attention, than I expected, here are two clarifications:
1. The Slack message was written after the person evacuated properly. It was written via phone while staying at the designated area outside the building.
2. Nobody asked AI advice explicitly. It was configured to answer automatically if it thinks it can help you. The configuration was updated after this incident.

@majick well, in our case there were definitely cases of 'scheduled alarm maintenance'. In that time, random alarms occurred many times during two or three hours. Evacuating after every single of them would mean nobody is doing the actual work during the good part of the day.

@rail sometimes, it's helpful when asked explicitly. Automatic answers are indeed annoying. But it looks like it's getting better, so we are still evaluating.

@TerryBTwo there's no 'instead of' in my post. Please read carefully.

@metacosm nobody asked the AI input at all. It just was configured in the particular channel to answer automatically if it thinks it can help faster than fellow humans (sometimes people actually ask something which was asked before, so AI could be helpful). The configuration will be adjusted after this incident.

@TerryBTwo @nd I'm not saying it's killing already. It will be worse.

@betalars @daniel_bohrer @Matt_999 the 'siren test' AI referring to is exactly that. It's not a drill. The planned siren test may take several hours of occasional alarms, and it doesn't mean that you should leave the building every time you hear it. We had one a few months ago. Probably AI found that announcement in the chat history and assumed that it is related to today's alarm.

@nd of course, the employee wrote this while already staying at the meeting point outside the building. I did not say that she wrote this before the evacuation.

@mhd reminds me of https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.