Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the latest high-profile victim of an illegal impersonation enabled by artificial intelligence. Several nations’ foreign ministers, a state governor and a U.S. senator received voice messages apparently from him.
As with all fraud and subversion, you need the cooperation of the listener for it to be successful. AI has tricked a great many of us simply because of our propensity to believe what we hear on media. The answer is to not believe anything you hear on media. Hopefully, the Government and media can figure out how to regain the trust of the public, but, until then, AI will be plenty smart to fool ALMOST all the people ALMOST all the time. It is pretty easy to spot, but may not always be that way. So, we are in a tough spot. I just do not think regulation will stop it. After all, it has never stopped even a single person who wants an illegal drug from getting it. We humans just have to figure out how to get smarter, or at least smarter than AI (you would think real intelligence could give "artificial" intelligence a run for its money, but the evidence is not promising).
As with all fraud and subversion, you need the cooperation of the listener for it to be successful. AI has tricked a great many of us simply because of our propensity to believe what we hear on media. The answer is to not believe anything you hear on media. Hopefully, the Government and media can figure out how to regain the trust of the public, but, until then, AI will be plenty smart to fool ALMOST all the people ALMOST all the time. It is pretty easy to spot, but may not always be that way. So, we are in a tough spot. I just do not think regulation will stop it. After all, it has never stopped even a single person who wants an illegal drug from getting it. We humans just have to figure out how to get smarter, or at least smarter than AI (you would think real intelligence could give "artificial" intelligence a run for its money, but the evidence is not promising).