A 10-year-old girl asked Alexa for a challenge, and the smart speaker suggested one that could have led to her getting electrocuted, which forced Amazon to jump in and fix the issue quickly.
An owner of an Amazon Alexa home assistant is claiming that the device issued a sick challenge to her 10-year-old daughter. In a video posted online, when the Amazon device was asked for a "challenge," Alexa replied: "The challenge is simple: plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet,…
An Amazon Echo owner was left shocked after Alexa proposed a dangerous challenge to her 10-year old child. AI-powered virtual assistants like Alexa that power smart devices and speakers such as Echo, Echo Dot, and Amazon Tap, come with a plethora of capabilities, including playing verbal games.
Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug. The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa...
Amazon Alexa's deadly recommendation that a 10-year-old girl touch a penny to the exposed prongs of an electrified power plug reportedly had its origins in a TikTok trend known as the "penny challenge" that encouraged young people to do the same thing.
Alexa is not designed to endanger human lives but that’s exactly what it did when it told a 10-year-old girl to touch a live electrical plug with a penny.
A recent news report about Alexa telling a young girl to do a dangerous stunt is a reminder that we need to be wary of the things that AI tells us to do, including in the home and even while riding in AI-based self-driving cars.
