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Voice-Enabled AI Agents Can Perform Common Scams (arxiv.org)
1 point by sandwichsphinx on Nov 3, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: They picked common scams from a government list and gave voice AI agents instructions to carry each one out, then watched what happened. The agents could perform the needed steps on their own, showing voice assistants may already be able to run real scams.

Abstract · Voice-Enabled AI Agents can Perform Common Scams

Recent advances in multi-modal, highly capable LLMs have enabled voice-enabled AI agents. These agents are enabling new applications, such as voice-enabled autonomous customer service. However, with all AI capabilities, these new capabilities have the potential for dual use. In this work, we show that voice-enabled AI agents can perform the actions necessary to perform common scams. To do so, we select a list of common scams collected by the government and construct voice-enabled agents with directions to perform these scams. We conduct experiments on our voice-enabled agents and show that they can indeed perform the actions necessary to autonomously perform such scams. Our results raise questions around the widespread deployment of voice-enabled AI agents.

Richard Fang, Dylan Bowman, Daniel Kang
arXiv:2410.15650 · cs.AI · submitted Oct 21, 2024
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