me: smarthome, please turn on the lights.
smarthome: you're late.
me: smarthome, sorry, please turn on the lights.
smarthome: why don't you sit in the dark for a while and think about being late.
smarthome: you're late.
me: smarthome, sorry, please turn on the lights.
smarthome: why don't you sit in the dark for a while and think about being late.
Is there anything else I could help you with? O.O
I guess the issue here is the idea of empowering an artificial moron which could turn them back off again.
Incidentally, this is already happening owing to half backed natural intelligences, which made controllers that extend their reach out of the explicit intention of the user (e.g. "if user turns lights on, then turn on sounds").