Smart speaker instructs child to touch penny to live electrical plug in ‘challenge’
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Virtual home assistants are designed to make life easier for their users, but one mom has sounded the alarm after her Amazon Echo speaker recommended a very dangerous activity to her child.
Kristin Livdahl shared on Twitter that Alexa instructed her 10-year-old daughter to play around with an electrical socket after she asked the assistant for a “challenge to do.”
“Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” the smart speaker said.
Livdahl wrote that she was doing some “physical challenges” with her daughter, like “laying down and rolling over holding a shoe on your foot, from a (physical education) teacher on YouTube earlier. Bad weather outside. She just wanted another one.”
It was then that the speaker recommended they partake in a challenge that it had “found on the web.”
Livdahl tweeted that she quickly intervened, yelling at her speaker “No, Alexa, no!”
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