Amazon Alexa allegedly suggested that a mother and daughter should complete a dangerous TikTok challenge. Minnesota mom Kristin Livdahl tweeted about the frightening experience. "My 10 year old just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amazon updated its Alexa artificial intelligence (AI) after a user posted that an Amazon device told their child to do what is ...

(RTTNews) - Amazon Inc.'s (AMZN} virtual assistant, Alexa, is mostly used to help out people. However, recently it endangered a human life when it asked a 10-year-old girl to touch a live electrical ...

Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant, is not designed to endanger human lives but that's exactly what it did over the weekend when it told a 10-year-old girl to touch a live electrical plug with a penny.

According to Twitter user Kristin Livdahl, Alexa told her 10-year-old daughter to stick a penny in a power outlet as a "challenge." Luckily, the parents were around to make sure that didn't happen.

Amazon updated its Alexa artificial intelligence (AI) after a user posted that an Amazon device told their child to do what is known as the “penny challenge,” a company spokesperson said Thursday.