Terrifying AI 'voice clone' scams targeting elderly Americans are on the rise
Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, received the letter from every senator on the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Braun’s staff said they have also heard a complaint about a scam that used a voice that sounded like movie and pop star Jennifer Lopez.
Braun recalled a Senate hearing this week in which Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., opened the hearing on AI with an AI-generated voice that sounded like him, reading off an AI-generated script, and said scammers have access to these same tools. "When you can replicate a voice to the extent I couldn’t tell if that was Sen. Blumenthal or a replication – it sounded exactly like him – just imagine," Braun said."That is a tool that the scammers never had." The FTC has made it clear it will use its authority to protect consumers from AI to the extent it can as Washington policymakers look to expand their regulatory oversight of this new technology. The Senate letter to the agency suggested that the FTC update its"educational and awareness" materials to help seniors understand that scammers may be looking to fleece them out of their money using AI-generated voices. Braun said FTC efforts to create these sorts of public service messages is a good start, adding that the Senate Special Committee on Aging maintains a hotline on scams against the elderly that he expects to soon start hearing complaints about voice-clone technology. He said the reports collected by the committee could feed into legislative efforts.Braun predicted that Washington is likely to take up more regulatory efforts in the future on AI, and it didn’t go unnoticed that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other industry officials who testified on AI this week seemed to be inviting more federal oversight. "I’ve never seen any new technology, new business, where the people that created it have been more worried about how you use it," he said."They’re worried that if they’re going to get any monetary value out of it, they are going to have to make sure it’s well-regulated." "I just think there’s no way that AI can go unchecked, and I’m glad to see the people … on the forefront are thinking the same way," he said.Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.
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