A similar tactic is used by some phone service providers.
It will dump calls to an AI that pretends to be an elderly person. Since an older person is like red meat to a phone scammer, they will wait a long time for the "victim" to get ready.
Meanwhile the bot's script is to waste time. Spend a few minutes "looking for my glasses", some "oh gosh I think I turned the phone down, where's that button?", "HUH, what did you say your name was?". And asking the scammer to repeat themselves, etc.
It makes those kinds of calls less profitable for scammers.