Brace Yourself for a Tidal Wave of ChatGPT Email Scams

Here's an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better at persuading victims to respond or click on the link than the usual spam. It's an interesting experiment, and the results are likely to vary wildly based on the details of the experiment. Bruce Schneier is a lecturer and fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and chief of security architecture at Inrupt. His latest book is A Hacker's Mind. Barath Raghavan is a professor of computer science at USC and cofounder of INVISV.