Today we had a fire alarm in the office.
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@tagir_valeev Having worked in the Chemical Industry all my life my first instinct is evacuate, carry out roll call and then establish whether or not it was a real fire. My colleagues and I were all fire and rescue trained but would only act on small fires we always called the fire service. Many of the sites I worked on had alarms that went to the local fire control and triggered a turn out, a turn out of 6 engines at one site plus a general alert to other brigades
@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.
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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.
@tagir_valeev@mastodon.online Simply because it saw that a common response was to indicate it was a drill, untethered from any real signals. And of course these glorified autocomplete prediction systems are being forced everywhere
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@majick @tagir_valeev As much as I love to talk about alert noise/fatigue, in that case other factors were contributing.
A bit of pressure from the supermarket chain, a bit of leftover mentality from the russian occupation times. Similar to the "I'm not afraid of no virus, I'm not gonna mask!" etc.@richlv @tagir_valeev Yeah, I completely agree those factors can very much influence how bad something like that turns out to become. Rarely does someone think a thing they do routinely is actually high risk.
I'd say they fall into the category of "factors" I mentioned as root causes: cultural, management-based (I've lived that life), and so on. Fatigue's one thing, for sure, not the only thing, and sometimes it's stuff like that deprioritizing the seriousness of an alarm. A different cause of fatigue/blasé attitude/misinterpretation.
Like I said, it's almost never the dude and almost always what influenced the dude to be the last link in the chain up to a horrible tragedy.
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