Amazon Alexa tells 10-year-old child to give herself an electric shock for a 'challenge'

Amazon's Alexa voice assistant recommended to a 10-year-old that she give herself an electric shock as part of a "challenge". Kristin Livdahl posted on Twitter that the voice assistant recommended the action after her daughter asked for a challenge. "Here's something I found on the web", Alexa replied. "The challenge is simple: plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs." Ms Livdahl said that she and her daughter were doing some "physical challenges" and that her daughter wanted another one.