Conversations with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant are supposed to be personal. In a promo video for the Google Home connected speaker, for instance, a husband and wife ask the omnipresent AI about their respective agendas for the day, and get individualized answers in return. But that’s not how Home and Amazon’s Echo speaker work in the real world today. When someone speaks, neither company’s virtual assistant can detect who’s talking. Echo requires an extra step of switching profiles to get personalized information, and offers no verification aside from an optional PIN for making Amazon purchases. Google Home doesn’t support multiple profiles at all.