It ain’t Star Trek, you can’t actually trip up a computer by asking it if it can lie then asking a question where you think it would have to lie. Out here in reality Alexa will say what it’s programmed to say, and that can be a lie, and if it really was connected to the CIA Amazon would have programmed it to lie about it. The fact that they probably didn’t program it to understand questions about what it is connected to doesn’t mean anything, other than you can’t think of every stupid question someone is going to ask. Anybody old enough to remember Eliza has played this game with AI, and knows it doesn’t actually mean anything.
I didn’t say it should be removed. I said it was stupid fake news. Having lots of stupid fake news around is useful, sometimes it’s funny, and it at least let’s you know what the gullible set is thinking these days.
I thought Alexa was just a verbal search engine. But it must have a bunch of programming to avoid certain topics. I was at a friend’s house that has one.
“Alexia - tell me a joke about a Rabbi.”
“I’m sorry, I don’t have any jokes about a Rabbi.”