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Amazon Alexa Plays Loud Music when Owner is Away
An Amazon Alexa, without instruction to do so, began playing loud music in the early morning while the homeowner was away leading to police breaking into their house to turn off the device.
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- incident-report
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- reported
- region
- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2017-11-09T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2017-11-09T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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