Not Saying Please and Thank You to My Google Home Made Me Feel Like a Bad Person

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How many of you say please and thank you to your Google Homes, your Alexas, your voice activated AI assistants?

You certainly don’t have to. I didn’t, at first. The urge was there for me from the start to inject polite qualifiers like foam bumpers on my voice orders, but I was unfamiliar enough with this relatively new voice…