Daniel Frank clicked on a link in an AI-generated simulated phishing email in a Reuters study. “AI is a genie out of the bottle,” he says. REUTERS/Daniel Cole
Reuters and a Harvard University researcher used top chatbots to plot a simulated phishing scam – from composing emails to tips on timing – and tested it on 108 elderly volunteers. The bots’ persuasive performance shows how AI is arming criminals for industrial-scale fraud.
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