After getting answers about Hen’s medical issues, 911 season 9 episode 8 is going to focus on a very different problem. It’s all about the dangers of AI.
Look, there are possibly times when AI is useful. I think most people have used it in some sort of capacity, whether it’s for work or just their own personal fun. However, it’s not the answer to everything, and there are growing concerns about how it can’t react properly in certain situations.
AI kills to save on 911 season 9 episode 8
While 911: Nashville saw people come in to help improve the efficiency of dispatch, the flagship series will see if AI can help to do that job. “Sarah” will take over the calls for the episode, and we already see a major issue with it. When a man is injured with a piece of glass to the neck, all Sarah can do is focus on the loss of blood.
I’m not sure if I’d listen to someone telling me to wrap a towel around my neck so much that it stops me from breathing, but some people will. And that’s the issue with AI. Sarah thinks that she’s saving this man, but what she’s really doing is killing him. There’s nothing that Maddie can do from the computer, so she has to take matters into her own hands.
Fortunately, she has a firefighter captain on speed dial. She makes a call to Chimney to get him to head out to the victim’s house, and hopefully, it’ll be in time to save him from both the loss of oxygen and the loss of blood.
Athena isn’t happy with Chimney’s decision
The promo opens with Athena and Chimney arguing over Chimney’s actions at the end of the previous episode. Look, I’m all for what Chimney did. Hen hid her medical issues to the point that it almost caused a huge problem for the 118. Hen could have collapsed in the building fire while looking for that girl. In fact, Buck and Ravi were ready to go in, but it could have ended up with four lives lost instead of none.
Had Chimney known about Hen’s medical issues, she would have just been benched. This would have given her time to get a proper workup to figure out what’s going on with her. Instead, he had no choice but to let her go. He would have done that with anyone else, but thought about holding back because she and Chimney are best friends.
Athena has no right to chastise Chimney for this decision. I know there are many who will want to see Hen still get to work, but the reality is, she put way too many lives on the line for her own selfish needs, and there have to be consequences to that.
911 airs on Thursdays at 8/7c on ABC and streams the following day on Hulu.