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Alexa Recommended Dangerous TikTok Challenge to Ten-Year-Old Girl
- Occurred
- Dec 26, 2021
- Published
- Dec 15, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Amazon
Deployers
- Amazon
Harmed parties
- Kristin Livdahl's daughter
- Amazon Echo customers
- children using Alexa
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Voice assistant recommended dangerous activity to a child, posing physical harm risk.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8