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Hey Alexa, What Are You Doing to My Kid's Brain?

May 16, 20188 min
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Episode description

Among the more modern anxieties of parents today is how virtual assistants will train their children to act. The fear is that kids who habitually order Amazon's Alexa to read them a story or command Google's Assistant to tell them a joke are learning to communicate not as polite, considerate citizens, but as demanding little twerps.

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