text_1: If you ask Amazon’s Alexa about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic, it says “the government planned” it.
text_2: The Alexa answer in the post refers to a real project called Event 201 that simulated possible outcomes of a coronavirus pandemic. However, it was a planning exercise and did not predict the COVID-19 pandemic. We were unable to elicit the same answer from Alexa, and Amazon told us that the answer to that question would be different.