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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