First AI Murder Attempt As Alexa Tells Child To Touch Live Outlet With Penny

Alexa is Amazon's virtual assistant technology to improve human lives. However, the scenario was quite opposite last week when the artificial influence Alexa device commited a murder attempt by telling a 10-year-old girl to touch a live electrical plug with a penny.

Twitter user "Kristin Livdahl" tweeted on Dec. 26, "OMFG My 10 year old just asked Alexa on our Echo for a challenge and this is what she said." 

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