In brief: Human-like AIs have brought plenty of justifiable concerns about their ability to replace human workers, but a company is turning the tech against one of humanity's biggest scourges: phone ...

For scammers as much as anybody, time is money. The more time a scammer spends talking to someone without taking their money or information, the less efficient their operation is. If a scammer gets ...

SO FOLKS, THIS IS SOMETHING I JUST HAD TO SHARE WITH YOU. A BRITISH PHONE COMPANY HAS COME UP WITH AN AI GENERATED GRANNY TO WASTE SCAMMERS TIME KEEPING THEM ON THE PHONE SO THEY CAN’T GO AND TARGET ...

A 78-year-old AI "grandmother" in the UK, designed to exhaust scammers, has gained international attention. Japan’s Asahi ...

Scambaiting is when the target of a phone or online scam knowingly tries to waste a scammer's time. Scambaiting can frustrate scammers and prevent them from targeting others. A UK company has now ...

For all of AI’s faults—like encouraging people to eat deadly mushrooms—sometimes it can be used to good ends. O2, the UK’s largest mobile network operator, has deployed a voice-based AI chatbot to ...

TL;DR: Phone scammers are becoming more sophisticated with AI, but AI can also be used against them. Virgin Media O2 has introduced an AI called Daisy, designed to impersonate a confused grandmother ...

British mobile phone company Virgin Media O2 has rolled out a new method to vex phone scammers, an artificial intelligence “granny” that keeps them tied up talking so they can’t target real customers.