{"id":110162,"date":"2025-08-26T01:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110162\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:17:06","slug":"kankakee-area-schools-threatened-by-ai-generated-robocalls-police-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/110162\/","title":{"rendered":"Kankakee-area schools threatened by AI-generated robocalls: Police \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in suburban Kankakee and Bradley are investigating what they believe were AI-generated robocalls that threatened multiple schools Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1082087230714794&amp;set=a.216599417263584\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1082087230714794&amp;set=a.216599417263584\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to a press release<\/a>, calls were placed to non-emergency numbers in both Kankakee and Bradley on Monday at approximately 4:33 a.m. that made threats toward an unspecified Kankakee school and toward Bradley East Elementary School. <\/p>\n<p>According to the release, the caller told a dispatcher \u201cthey were being forced to make the threats, and some other (incoherent) verbiage before disconnecting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on an investigation, police believe the calls were made by an AI-generated robocall, and were deemed not credible.<\/p>\n<p>Police presence was still beefed up at schools on Monday, with officials in Bradley alerting parents to the threats.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was immediately available on the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in suburban Kankakee and Bradley are investigating what they believe were AI-generated robocalls that threatened multiple schools&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,72256,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-110162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-kankakee-county","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}