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>>rbanff+(OP)
Alexa should be treated as a different kind of stranger. I think it's a huge mistake for children to talk to computers. It's inherently dishonest for a single voice to represent something so manipulative and fluid as if it's a person.

Amusing example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MECcIJW67-M

>>jakeog+pc4
I don't think speaking to computers is a problem so much as speaking to someone's marketing-data-aggregating cloud service. This can even be explained to a child fairly easily, e.g.:

"Siri isn't the iPhone. She's a very powerful computer who lives far away, and talks to us through the iPhone. Just like you can talk to Grandma through it."

"Where does Siri live?"

"Well, um... she lives in a cloud, sweetie."