This is an important emerging trend. I have an Alexa and haven't really had any issues, but a friend of mine mentioned to his wife that he felt sad, and their Alexa device interrupted their conversation with a suicide hotline prevention number. It was a bizarre encounter to say the least. The human / machine relationship is a complicated one that is going to have to be managed.
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You nailed it by saying "human/machine relationship is a complicated one". This is something that will evolve gradually over decades and that is why it is all so weird to us when it has just started.
Thanks. It almost feels like a new version of the early industrial age, where machines started to replace human labor on a large scale. Eventually people adapted but it took a long time. I attended a workshop recently with John Coyle who is a former Olympic athlete. He is now a business consultant, and he said, "today is the slowest day of the rest of your life." It's a sobering thought.