[jrmg]

Man, the number of people here arguing that parents should not let their children use Alexa, or that Amazon bears no responsibility for it presenting factually incorrect answers to questions really makes me worried about the future of our industry…

Have the people commenting used a voice assistant? There’s a very clear difference to even (or, given the weirdly unintuitive opinions here, maybe especially) a casual user between returning search results and using information gathered from them to directly answer a question.

The difference is there even when interacting with humans - it’s the difference between “I read an article about that once, let me find it so you can read it too” and “The answer to your question is X”.

[annoyingnoob]

Sure Alexa can be improved but we still need to teach our kids about safety, online, voice assistant, and otherwise. My kids want to do all kinds of things I don't let them do.

My son wanted to run around outside in freezing cold rain, in shorts with no shoes, I didn't let him but Alexa would have. I don't expect Alexa to be a parent or to supplant me as a parent.