ALEXA has predicted when the next world war will take place.
Her reasoning is eerily specific and the Amazon artificial intelligence even says who supposedly starts the war and how.
Tensions in international relations continue to resonate because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Alexa predicted exactly when a full-blown World War III would begin.
The viral video is simply this AI assistant being prodded with the question “When will WWIII Start?”
She answers: “WWIII starts on November 23, 2023, at 6:05pm, when Russia launches an attack against Germany.”
Commenters had varying reactions, mainly of terror.
“With food being so expensive, I think we’re already at war,” one TikToker said.
Another stated they believe, “World War 2 never stopped,” the comment garnering 123 likes.
“THE DEVIL”
A few more commenters had their own theory on why the AI could utter such a thing.
Under a comment that read, “You do know you can program it to say whatever you want,” a TikToker had an eery quip.
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They said: “So can the devil…pre-programmed during manufacturing.”
A second religion-focused comment proclaimed, “Alexa doesn’t predict anything only God predicts everything Alexa is daemonic.
TikToker Noah Brendan replied to the comment saying: “I just make these for fun.”
He had reposted Jon Buckhouse’s video of the Alexa doomsday question.
Buckhouse has earned a reputation for his unruly Amazon AI device, The Daily Star noted.
Widely-viewed claims of his include the destruction of Miami in 2025 by a hurricane and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson running for president, per the outlet.
A TECHNOLOGICAL EXPLANATION
While it is very possible that Buckhouse’s Alexa did make the statement about a pending war, it is unlikely yours could do the same – unless you program it that way.
“There are several ways for customers to create their own customized Alexa responses, for example with Routines or Alexa Skill Blueprints,” Amazon said in a statement to The U.S. Sun.
“These custom responses are not reproducible for other customers unless the skill or routine is shared by the creator and specifically enabled by a recipient.”
When it comes to her real automatic answer to that question, it is purely informational.
Alexa says, “There hasn’t been a World War III and it’s impossible to predict if such a war will happen in the future. World War I occurred from 1914-1918 and World War II occurred from 1939-1945.