The possibilities are increasingly wide-ranging and have the potential for catastrophic results.
Christopher Wray
FBI director, 2017–2025
In prepared 2023 remarks, FBI Director Christopher Wray wrote that AI-enabled crime and attacks could have catastrophic results.
Director of the Federal Bureau of InvestigationJune 20, 2023Federal Bureau of Investigation
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… demand a ransom to release the supposed “victim” from what is actually a fake kidnapping.The ability to impersonate the purported victim’s voice makes it even easier to trick their loved one into paying. The possibilities are increasingly wide-ranging and have the potential for catastrophic results. AI as a Target of Foreign Adversaries The second way we at the FBI are looking at AI is as an economic-espionage target of our foreign adversaries, because in addition to being a tool and a target of cybercrime, AI is also a target of
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- The catastrophic-results language concerns AI-enabled crime, attacks, and impersonation, not extinction; later in the remarks, Wray said the FBI should embrace AI’s benefits and help keep the United States at the forefront.
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