Neither the companies themselves nor the devices they sell are trustworthy.
Amazon’s Alexa assistant told a child to do a potentially lethal challenge
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.
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