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Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has been updated after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch<\/a> a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.<\/p>\n

The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for<\/a> a “challenge to do,” according to the BBC.<\/p>\n

“Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” the smart speaker said.<\/p>\n

Amazon stated that it corrected the error as soon as it became aware of it.<\/p>\n

Kristin Livdahl, the girl’s mother, described the incident on Twitter.<\/p>\n

“We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and rolling over holding a shoe on your foot, from a (physical education) teacher on YouTube earlier<\/a>. Bad weather outside. She just wanted another one,” she said.<\/p>\n

That’s when the Echo speaker suggested taking part in the challenge, which it had “found on the web,” according to the report.<\/p>\n

The perilous activity, dubbed “the penny challenge,” first appeared on TikTok and<\/a> other social media platforms about a year ago.<\/p>\n

Inserting metals into live electrical sockets can result in electric<\/a> shocks, fires, and other damage.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Amazon told the BBC that it had updated Alexa to prevent the assistant from recommending such activity in the future.<\/p>\n

“As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it,” the company was<\/a> quoted as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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