LLMMedium
Amazon Alexa Plays Loud Music when Owner is Away
- Occurred
- Nov 9, 2017
- Published
- Nov 10, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
An Amazon Alexa, without instruction to do so, began playing loud music in the early morning while the homeowner was away leading to police breaking into their house to turn off the device.
Developers
- Amazon
Deployers
- Amazon
Harmed parties
- Oliver Haberstroh
- Neighbors
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Voice assistant malfunction caused police intervention, representing a notable failure without physical harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8