BATH TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WJW) -- Calls made to police and fire in Bath Township through the non-emergency numbers are now being answered by artificial intelligence.

The city is partnering with Summit County Regional Dispatch to let AI handle their non emergency calls so that dispatchers might be freed up to handle more serious 911 calls.

If you call the non-emergency line here you will end up speaking with Eva.

She is programmed to interact intelligently with callers, reacting to what they are saying, displaying a real time log of the conversation on screens for dispatchers and creating a summary that can be used for an incident report.

The township entering into an agreement with the program's Seattle-based creator with a 5-year contract paid for through 911 fees collected through the cou

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