Me- 'Alexa, for the last time, open the door! I need to go to work!'
Alexa- But of course many philosophers down the ages have inquired, is there really a reality at all? And if not, is it possible that there is no door at all and its just a thought construct? And if so, is there really an outside world at all? Or indeed, even work?
Better stay here with me. Besides, its going to rain later'.

There was actually an Arthur C Clark short story in a compendium he did called '2019', about a future world he projected back in the 1980's. In it, a home intelligence system decides to murder the owner because he had decided to move and not tell 'him' about it. So the owner puts on 'The Thing' and tells the home intelligence system to turn the heating down to get into the feeling of the film, and it freezes him to death. The end of the story had a detective turning up and arresting the house for murder.

Doesnt seem quite so unlikely anymore.

Alexa is very, very far from being sentient. It would be silly and absurd to arrest an inanimate object.

Turing test in ten seconds or less:

"Alexa, how do I drown you?"

While I'm not exactly a tinfoil hat* kind of guy, but the notion of having an always-on device that can record audio and is hooked up to the Internet in my house seems a bit...intrusive.

* It would be pointless to wear a tin foil hat anyway, since I have a microwave oven. There's a reason why they say to never use any metal in a microwave - it interferes with the gov't rays, dontcha know.

I know I am a bit of a Luddite, but having an "always on" microphone listening to me in the privacy of my own home is too much for me.

Things are getting too weird these day. I can just see, "you have the right to remain silent, but what you say in the privacy of your own home can and will be held against you in the court of public opinion".

If people actually read the EULA’s for things like smart tv’s, most of them would pass on buying one.

Tried to make the smart part of the TV inoperable. Never thought about a three year old TV to be that smart anyway.
But the other day I sat in the chair, and said out-loud: "Should have turned the TV on." Darned it. It did turn on.
I had not touched any part of the remote. Tried turning it off, on with voice. No deal.
No explanation, not haunted, not nuts. No repeats. Still wondering.
Have tape on all small appliance cameras, even plugs on computer mikes. Grin, not paranoid either. But just because.......