Amazon has fixed an error on its Alexa voice assistant after suggesting that a 10-year-old girl should touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.
The dangerous activity, known as "the penny challenge", began circulating on TikTok and other social media websites over the last 12 months.
The smart speaker said: "Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs."
Metals conduct electricity and inserting them into live electrical sockets can cause electric shocks, fires and other damage.
Livdahl wrote on Twitter: "My 10 year old just asked Alexa on our Echo for a challenge and this is what she said.
"We were doing some physical challenges, like laying down and rolling over holding a shoe on your foot, from a [physical education] teacher on YouTube earlier. Bad weather outside. She just wanted another one.
"I was right there when it happened and we had another good conversation about not trusting anything from the internet or Alexa. No attempt was made to try this."
Amazon told the BBC in a statement that it had updated Alexa to prevent the assistant recommending such activity in the future.
"Customer trust is at the centre of everything we do and Alexa is designed to provide accurate, relevant, and helpful information to customers," said Amazon in a statement.
"As soon as we became aware of this error, we took swift action to fix it."
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