Vividly. 
Is this just one more excuse to give increased authority to invade, sorry intrude into, oops really really sorry, improve our everyday lives?
Will Alexa and others politely offer and do so discretely the number of a family counselling service? Or for those more intimate moments some great tips or special products useful for spicing up the occasion?
Which product providers will get top billing? Will there be a ‘MeToo’ moment and a concise intervention or an unwarranted intrusion due to the AI getting it wrong?
Hopefully those that choose to dive in to the world of Smart Speakers will also have a choice of privacy settings including the right for the AI to ignore and forget!
The alternative is a smart speaker that has the moral (or perhaps Dept of Home Affairs) right to monitor every aspect of home living and to pass judgement on all before it. There is sure to be a Futurist or SciFi story with all the answers.
Alexa in the car. Why not? No more red light cameras, no more speed cameras. Alexa will dob you in every time you infringe, to the millisecond!
All we need to see next is for MyGov to integrate Alexa into their log in, ID and online chat system to complete a trifecta for Alphabet?
Smart speakers,
- Responsive to your requests and providing assistance.
- Providing advice and intervention when you might look like straying from the moral norms set by society.
- Developing good citizens, law abiding and conforming to the expectations of government.
Perhaps, not ‘Big Brother’, but for Alexa ‘Big Sister’, assuming the trade mark is not infringed! Perhaps better kept in a sealed can in a dark corner of the pantry, which is where it should stay.
