5 AI Technologies Hackers Can Use In Terrible New Ways
How-To Geek, February 9th, 2023
AI technologies may be disrupting numerous industries, but at least in most cases, we can see how they'll be more useful than harmful in the long run. However, these new tools are also opening many new opportunities for nefarious types.
Being able to understand and produce natural human language has been one of the prime goals of AI research from the earliest days. Today, we have synthetic voice production, highly-sophisticated chatbots, natural language text generators, and many more related AI-driven technologies.
These applications are perfect for phishing attacks, where hackers pose as legitimate entities and their representatives as a way to get sensitive information out of people. With these new technologies, you could have AI agents impersonate people en-masse through email, telephone calls, instant messaging, or wherever else humans talk to each other through a computer system.