Show notes
This week’s episode dives into the growing security risks of AI, starting with a staggering AI-powered banking scam in Italy. Criminals used a fake WhatsApp message and an AI-generated voice impersonation of a senior executive and lawyer to convince a private bank chairman to authorize €95 million in transfers. Authorities recovered about €53 million, but the remainder was converted to cryptocurrency and remains missing. We also examine a bizarre experiment in which researchers artificially activated “pain” signals inside AI models, finding that some larger models would choose actions that…
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