Description: Scammers are using AI tools to create convincing fraud schemes, making them harder to detect. AI-generated messages and fake identities bypass traditional scam indicators. Incidents include impersonation of senior executives and job scams, leading to financial losses and identity theft. Banks are adopting AI to combat these scams, but the sophistication of AI-driven fraud continues to pose significant challenges.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: AI tool creators and OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by Unknown scammers, which harmed Bank customers.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
735
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2024-06-22
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Applied Taxonomies
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
wsj.com · 2024
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Artificial intelligence is making scammers tougher to spot.
Gone are the poorly worded messages that easily tipped off authorities as well as the grammar police. The bad guys are now better writers and more convincing conversationalists, w…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
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