This study examines 124 5- to 10-year-old children’s and their parent’s beliefs about smart speakers that provide ignorant or exact responses to knowable and unknowable questions. More specifically we explored whether participants value virtuous ignorance (i.e., the admission of not knowing the answer to a question because the information is unknowable) when considering explanations provided by smart speakers. With age, children and adults increasingly indicate that smart speakers that provide virtuously ignorant responses are more credible than smart speakers that provide exact responses to unknowable questions. Interestingly, children, but not adults, indicated that speakers with virtuously ignorant responses are better for unknowable future event related questions than unknowable number related questions. Children’s evaluations of technology’s virtuous ignorance changed with age and question type, perhaps reflecting changes in children’s expectations about the kinds of responses devices can reasonably provide. Implications for children’s and adult’s learning and understanding from smart speakers are discussed.