Fox News' Danamarie McNicholl reports alongside the Secret Service as they detect and prevent the use of credit card skimmers, traced to a crime ring led in Eastern Europe. You've heard the stories … A CEO was conned out of 233,000 when someone copied the voice of his parent company's boss. A 75-year-old woman nearly lost 27,500, thinking her grandson was in trouble. With as little as 4, anyone can copy a voice with super-cheap, super-powerful AI software. I've got the inside scoop on tricks these scammers use so you don't fall for it.

The government is warning Americans about the rise in AI'sextortion' that is sweeping the nation - and the attack has caused at least a 20 suicides in recent years. Sextortion is when an offender convinces the victim to send sexually explicit pictures of videos and then threatens - and the criminal threatens to release them to the public if they do not receive more content or money. However, these attacks are being combined with AI, giving offenders tools to create attractive personas and generate convincing conversations. These attacks have risen 1,000 percent in the last 18 months, according to the Network Contagion Research Institute, driven by West African gangs who target young people on Instagram, Snapchat and Wizz. Adam Pilton who formerly led a cybercrime team, said: 'I have seen and investigated many cases of sextortion.

Tamara Kneese studies how people experience technology. She is a senior researcher at New York-based nonprofit Data & Society Research Institute. Her new book, Death Glitch, examines what happens to our digital belongings when we die, and argues that tech companies need to improve how they deal with death on their platforms for the sake of all our digital posterity. The posthumous fate of our digital belongings seems a morbid topic. Not many people think about their digital legacy, but our digital belongings are accumulating.

Personality profiling has been utilised by companies for targeted advertising, political campaigns and vaccine campaigns. However, the accuracy and versatility of such models still remains relatively unknown. Consequently, we aim to explore the extent to which peoples' online digital footprints can be used to profile their Myers-Briggs personality type. We analyse and compare the results of four models: logistic regression, naive Bayes, support vector machines (SVMs) and random forests. We discover that a SVM model achieves the best accuracy of 20.95% for predicting someones complete personality type. However, logistic regression models perform only marginally worse and are significantly faster to train and perform predictions. We discover that many labelled datasets present substantial class imbalances of personal characteristics on social media, including our own. As a result, we highlight the need for attentive consideration when reporting model performance on these datasets and compare a number of methods for fixing the class-imbalance problems. Moreover, we develop a statistical framework for assessing the importance of different sets of features in our models. We discover some features to be more informative than others in the Intuitive/Sensory (p = 0.032) and Thinking/Feeling (p = 0.019) models. While we apply these methods to Myers-Briggs personality profiling, they could be more generally used for any labelling of individuals on social media.

AI technology is fuelling an explosion in voice cloning scams, experts have warned. Fraudsters can now mimic a victim's voice using just a three second snippet of audio, often stolen from social media profiles. It is then used to phone a friend or family member convincing them they are in trouble and urgently need money. One in four Britons say they or someone they know has been targeted by the scam, according to cybersecurity specialists McAfee. It is so believable the majority of those affected admitted they have lost money as a result, with the cost for around a third of victims over £1,000.

This includes chatbots, social media, and other channels. Businesses must ensure that they are utilizing the most up-to-date technologies. They must do this in order to engage with their clients in the most efficient manner possible. Consider using the most cutting-edge technology that companies are adopting to boost customer engagement. For businesses, social media is now more vital than ever.

AI in recruitment is a fast-growing trend that is changing how we find work. With 43% of HR professionals already using AI and more planning to in the future, job seekers need to know how to use it to their advantage. In our ultimate guide to AI for talent management, we'll explain what AI is all about and how you can use it to help your job search. AI means technology that does things automatically using algorithms and machine learning. Recruiters are using AI to automate some of the high-volume recruitment processes.

In 2011, the Los Angeles police department rolled out a novel approach to policing called Operation Laser. Laser – which stood for Los Angeles Strategic Extraction and Restoration – was the first predictive policing programme of its kind in the US, allowing the LAPD to use historical data to predict with laser precision (hence the name) where future crimes might be committed and who might commit them. But it was all but precise. The programme used historical crime data like arrests, calls for service, field interview cards – which police filled out with identifying information every time they stopped someone regardless of the reason – and more to map out "problem areas" for officers to focus their efforts on or assign criminal risk scores to individuals. Information collected during these policing efforts was fed into computer software that further helped automate the department's crime-prediction efforts.

The new Anthony Bourdain documentary, "Roadrunner," is one of many projects dedicated to the larger-than-life chef, writer and television personality. But the film has drawn outsize attention, in part because of its subtle reliance on artificial intelligence technology. Using several hours of Bourdain's voice recordings, a software company created 45 seconds of new audio for the documentary. The AI voice sounds just like Bourdain speaking from the great beyond; at one point in the movie, it reads an email he sent before his death by suicide in 2018. "If you watch the film, other than that line you mentioned, you probably don't know what the other lines are that were spoken by the AI, and you're not going to know," Morgan Neville, the director, said in an interview with The New Yorker.

Artificial intelligence technologies are being used across industries to automate and improve the efficacy of different activities. The advanced machine learning systems are equipped to replicate the discreet thinking and analysis patterns demonstrated by humans. This allows companies to leverage AI in performing some of the complex cognitive tasks with minimal human intervention. While AI can be applied to varied use-cases, social media is one segment where it has become a major catalyst for companies to grow. For example, AI chatbots for business are helping companies to stay connected with their audience.