Topic

AI-generated social engineering

The use of generative AI models to write, personalise or voice fraudulent messages and personas, including research into how persuasive machine-written lures are compared with human-written ones.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

AI-written phishing fooled people 28% of the time in a BYU test, against 21% for human-written

In the same experiments, participants identified the author correctly 52% of the time. The strongest single lever the BYU team reports is a mention of a co-worker, worth 2.3 times the clicks of a generic sender.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+33
Incentives45
Confidence44