AI-enhanced scams are coming: How chatbots will help cybercriminals

The abuse of AI chatbots in online scams is inevitable, and cybercrime experts believe the next wave of phishing attacks will be more sophisticated with the help of AI. For you, this means tell-tale signs of a dodgy email, like spelling mistakes, may soon disappear. — Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa

BERLIN: AI chatbots can generate text of astonishingly high quality: letters, summaries, essays, stories in a particular writing style, even functioning software code.

But for all the benefits that the technology offers, there’s also the risk that it can be abused by cybercriminals.