Happy new year, and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: How cybersecurity training is—and isn't—keeping up with generative AI's new threats; OpenAI beefs up its political lobbying; Nvidia to open-source Run:AI software following acquisition; and AI leadership roles triple in two years.
2024 saw brand new types of generative AI-enabled digital fraud make headlines, from a deepfaked video call that cost a company $25 million to new research on how AI copilots being built into enterprise software can be weaponized as “automatic phishing machines”. Even classic phishing attacks are getting worse and getting more personal, the Financial Times reported today, thanks to AI bots’ ability to easily ingest large amounts of data about a company or person’s style and tone and then easily replicate it. They can also scrape data from a person’s online activity to make phishing emails more personal, and thus more convincing.
