AI Fire Guy

  A Seattle Times investigation published June 14 should be required reading for every fire chief in this country. Here's what the reporting found: the Seattle Fire Department has been using AI to help triage and divert 911 medical calls for over two years. A Denmark-based company called Corti listens to every incoming medical call in real time and prompts dispatchers to route certain callers to a nurse line instead of sending an ambulance. According to the Times, residents weren't told. There was no public review. And when reporters asked SFD how they were measuring outcomes — the department couldn't answer. Before I go further, I want to say something clearly: Seattle Fire is one of the most innovative and respected departments in the country. Their contributions to EMS protocols, cardiac arrest response, and systems-level thinking have benefited fire and EMS agencies across the country for decades. If they're running into governance challenges with AI adoptio...

  Three Stories That Should Change How Fire Chiefs Think About AI Right Now By Ken Lord | AI Fire Guy | aifireguy.com   Last week dropped three AI stories in rapid succession. On the surface they look like tech industry and Wall Street news. None of them mention the fire service. But if you lead a fire department and you're trying to figure out where AI fits, or whether it fits at all, these three stories are more relevant to your department than anything else that hit the wire last week. Let me walk through each one and then tell you exactly what I think it means for you.   Story #1: Anthropic Files for an IPO On June 1, 2026, Anthropic, the company that builds Claude, confidentially filed a draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The filing follows a $65 billion funding round that valued the company at roughly $965 billion, and a public debut above the $1 trillion mark is now consi...