If you get a call from someone claiming to be a senior government official, don’t be alarmed. The FBI warned last week about what they call “an ongoing malicious text and voice messaging campaign” that uses artificial intelligence to impersonate U.S. government officials.
It’s a reminder that voice cloning has become trivially easy and calls into question the security of voice authentication systems.
Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Ina Fried, chief technology correspondent for Axios.
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