Alexa Recommended Dangerous TikTok Challenge to Ten-Year-Old Girl
December 26, 2021
Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa suggested “the penny challenge,” which involves dangerously touching a coin to the prongs of a half-exposed plug, when a ten-year-old girl asked for a challenge to do.
- Alleged deployer
- amazon
- Alleged developer
- amazon
- Alleged harmed parties
- kristin-livdahl's-daughter, amazon-echo-customers, children-using-alexa
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