LLMs in the Real World: Evaluating "AI" in Emergency Contexts

arXiv:2607.00019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper offers a call to action. We urge our colleagues in the research community to play a greater role in the articulation of our findings to the public. To illustrate the stakes we present a case study on the initial stages of an LLM-based machine translation application's deployment in a real-world context: a text-2-911 system advertising capabilities in 55 languages for use in emergencies in which it may be difficult to call operators directly. We identify a number of common misconceptions about technologies such as these, concluding wi