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Alexa Recommended Dangerous TikTok Challenge to Ten-Year-Old Girl
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.
- Date it happened
- 2021-12-26
- Organisation involved
- Amazon
- Product, system or model
- Alexa is a virtual assistant technology that is deployed to help households complete basic tasks like creating shopping lists, searching the web, and more.
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