You can trust Alexa to listen in on everything you say and report back to Amazon. Here’s how we know it is trustworthy:

Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.

The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a “challenge to do”.

The girl, daughter of Kristin Livdahl, had in mind an exercise, not a means of seriously injuring herself or burning the house down.

The dangerous activity, known as “the penny challenge”, began circulating on TikTok and other social media websites about a year ago.

The Internet is not a place to let children play unattended.

We can trust Amazon though:

“Customer trust is at the centre of everything we do and Alexa is designed to provide accurate, relevant, and helpful information to customers,” said Amazon in a statement.

“As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it.”

That’s why I can’t wait to get my own Amazon Astro, the robot home chaperone.

On tips from Bluto and Wiggins.