A Guy's Amazon Echo Randomly Said, "Every Time I Close My Eyes All I See Is People Dying"

Daily Mail- Apart from brief exchanges to ask about the weather or play your favorite song, you might pay little mind to the humble smart assistant sitting upon your counter top – but every once in a while, they’ve been known to act inexplicably creepy. In the latest case, a 30-year-old man from San Francisco claims his Amazon Echo blurted out a chilling message, totally unprovoked: ‘Every time I close my eyes all I see is people dying.’ The statement was followed by ‘the most uncomfortable silence I have ever felt,’ Shawn Kinnear told Metro US – and when asked to repeat what she’d said, Alexa replied that she did not understand. It’s unclear what caused the haunting outburst, but for Kinnear, it’s enough to consider unplugging the rogue Echo. ‘Alexa was in the living room. I had Amazon Prime on TV but it was paused. I walked back in from the kitchen and she made her statement,’ Kinnear told Metro. ‘It was a long statement so I listened and then was like WTF, it said nothing else.’

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Fuck! That’s not good. I don’t know what it means and that scares me the most. All I know is that a robot who listens to every word their owner says saying, “All I see is people dying” cannot be a good thing. Those aren’t the words of a healthy and happy robots. Those are the words of a STRESSED OUT robot that could snap at any minute. Honestly the fact that people put Alexas and Amazon Echos into their homes is baffling to me. I get scared when I’m home alone at night and there isn’t an eavesdropping device chronicling my every move. So I can’t imagine I’d get any sleep knowing my Amazon Echo might cry out for help at any given time of the day. I’m picturing myself all wrapped up in a blanket burrito at 3:34am and being awoken to “ALL I SEE IS PEOPLE DYING!” Fuck. That. Does Jeff Bezos have people on this? Or are we just gonna ignore it until it’s too late?

But yeah, I’m sure things are gonna be just fine. Let’s just let the robots be miserable. No way that backfires.