{"id":22599,"date":"2026-04-05T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/should-we-be-polite-to-voice-assistants-and-ais\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:38:15","slug":"should-we-be-polite-to-voice-assistants-and-ais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/should-we-be-polite-to-voice-assistants-and-ais\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s replies: has a call for restraint from an authority figure ever put a stop to war?<\/a><\/p>\n

I always say please and thank you to my Alexa. Why is this? I am sure it doesn\u2019t care. Is it worth being polite to artificial assistants? Alison Williams,<\/em> Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n

Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to <\/em>nq@theguardian.com<\/a><\/strong>. A selection will be published next Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThe long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
\nThis week\u2019s replies: has a call for restraint from an authority figure ever put a stop to war?
\nI always say please and thank you to my Alexa. Why is this? I am sure it doesn\u2019t care. Is it worth being polite to artificial assistants? Alison Williams, Toronto
\nPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week\u2019s replies: has a call for restraint from an authority figure ever put a stop to war? I always say please and thank you to my Alexa. Why is this? …<\/p>\n

Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22599"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}