Amazon's Alexa Tells User to Kill Foster Parents During Chatbot Experiment

Most Amazon Alexa owners count on their devices to share information about the weather, the day's events, or random facts from the internet. As a part of its ongoing efforts to the make the product and its AI software better, Amazon launched a program in 2016 called the Alexa Prize, which allowed for the creation of chatbots that would (in theory) teach Alexa better conversational skills. Reuters reports that during the experiment, some Alexa owners heard very unexpected responses from their devices, including vulgar references to sex acts and suggestions of murder.

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