Alexa Gone Bad: When A.I. Assistants Turn On Us

We've already seen A.I. assistants misbehave. Take the Amazon Echo that blared "Porn detected!" While Chucky's murderous malfunction seems farfetched, we couldn't help but envision ways our own abused A.I. assistants might soon rebel: Tired of your verbal vitriol, the miffed assistant silences your morning alarm, in the hope you will sleep in forever and stop all the shouting. Deciding your friends should help sort out your problems instead of it, the assistant innocently posts all your weird Google searches on Twitter. Upset you didn't laugh at the rather witty joke it produced on demand, the assistant tells you a relentless series of painful Dad jokes.