Imagine, for example, that you one day get an unusually personalized “phishing” email attempting to persuade you to divulge personal information. It’s sent from your friend’s account by an AI who’s hacked it and is impersonating her, imitating her writing style based on an analysis of her other sent emails, and including lots of personal information about you from other sources. Might you fall for this? What if the phishing email appears to come from your credit card company and is followed up by a phone call from a friendly human voice that you can’t tell is AI-generated? In the ongoing
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These will almost certainly start happening in the next 5-10 years.
