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Kids don’t trust Alexa – great, but it’s no cure for fake news
- Wednesday | 11th December, 2019
ITEM: Kids don’t believe everything digital assistants like Alexa and Siri tell them, according to recent research, which suggests today’s digital-native kids could grow up inoculated against fake news and disinformation on the internet. Many kids ask Alexa all kinds of questions – what color is my shirt, is there such a thing as unicorns, etc. This study follows several similar studies that found kids don’t unquestioningly believe everything virtual assistants tell them, and often interact with them to work out what kind of authority they have to answer questions knowledgably. Kids don’t just blindly believe every answer they get. For example, the Danovitch study notes that kids trust teachers to give reliable answers, even if the answer isn’t actually correct (intentionally or mistakenly).
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