This past holiday season, you may have been one of the millions who either gave or received a home assistant like the Google Home or Amazon Echo. Voice-activated assistants are helpful, increasingly affordable, and make you feel like you’re truly living in the future. But, like, any new technology, there’s some reason to be cautious of our newest roommates.

In a recent article exploring the social impact of the technology, Jennifer Yang Hui and Dymples Leong explain that much of the conce