Vigilance still the best defence against ever-sophisticated AI scammers

'These days you can't even trust what is in front of your eyes'

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Roger Brosch urges advisers and clients to remain vigilant as the sophistication of AI scammers increases...

We have seen high-profile examples of the way artificial intelligence (AI)-generated "deepfake" audio and video have been used to instigate political and social division. Sadiq Khan's voice was copied in a widely-circulated audio clip and Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was apparently filmed, saying Ukraine was to surrender in the war against Russia. Both these disinformation attempts were rumbled but that didn't stop them being seen by many people on social media. After writing before about the power of AI to be truly and wonderfully transformative, the flip side is, equally...

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