A 10-year-old girl and her mother got a lesson about the utility of voice assistants after Amazon's Alexa suggested the girl try the TikTok plug challenge. According to the girl's mother, Kristin Livdahl, the dangerous suggestion came after her daughter asked Alexa for a challenge to do.
"We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and rolling over holding a shot on your foot, from a Phy Ed teacher on YouTube earlier," Livdahl explained in her Twitter thread. "She just wanted another one."
For the (blessedly) uninitiated, the plug challenge consists of partially plugging a phone charger into an electrical outlet and then dropping a penny onto the exposed prongs. Results can run the gamut from a small spark to a full-on electrical fire.
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