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AI Aimed at Making Life Easier Poses Dangerous Threat

"Think about this: An attacker records my wife's voice, 'learns' it using AI, and now he can craft a targeted campaign calling me from my wife's [fake] phone number.”
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Wouldn’t it be great if your smartphone could call your hairdresser and book an appointment, or haggle with your favorite restaurant for dinner reservations? This past May, Google demonstrated software, called Duplex, that can do just that. The audience of techies was suitably astonished. But consider what it might be like to be on the other

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