{"id":456084,"date":"2018-03-22T07:34:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T11:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=499eec1a459a9118e30a0d3e2432492e"},"modified":"2018-03-22T07:34:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T11:34:27","slug":"the-existential-case-for-ditching-alexa-and-other-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=456084","title":{"rendered":"The existential case for ditching Alexa and other AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexa&#8217;s creepy laugh is far from the most worrying thing about her. This is despite the fact that Amazon&#8217;s digital assistant \u2013 which allows users to access the internet and control personal organisation tools simply by speaking to the device \u2013 has been reported to spontaneously chuckle to herself. We shouldn&#8217;t be too concerned about her going rogue and turning on us either \u2013 a Terminator-style takeover by artificial intelligence doesn&#8217;t seem imminent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexa&#8217;s creepy laugh is far from the most worrying thing about her. This is despite the fact that Amazon&#8217;s digital assistant &ndash; which allows users to access the internet and control personal organisation tools simply by speaking to the device &ndash; has been reported to spontaneously chuckle to herself. We shouldn&#8217;t be too concerned about her going rogue and turning on us either &ndash; a Terminator-style takeover by artificial intelligence doesn&#8217;t seem imminent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456085,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456084\/revisions\/456085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}