Researchers sound alarm over metaverse's potential to cause harm

Tech companies like Meta and Microsoft believe the metaverse – a virtual interactive environment that can be accessed with a VR headset – may one day replace our current internet. However it's also likely to adopt many of the problems of the current web, researchers believe. — Photo: Philipp von Ditfurth/dpa

BERLIN: People concerned about their data have for years had to think carefully about matters such as social media app settings and internet browser cookies, as well as increasingly sophisticated email-based phishing scams.

But the addition of so-called artificial intelligence platforms and the metaverse could make these worries seem trivial, if a new report by Queen’s University Belfast is anything to go by.