For all of AIs faultslikeencouraging people to eat deadly mushroomssometimes it can be used to good ends.
The elderly are already vulnerable enough.
Ultimately, blocking fraudulent calls and shutting down the organizations that run these scams would be the ideal solution.
UK mobile network operator O2 has created a voice-based AI bot intended to waste scammers' time.picture alliance / Getty
Carriers have gotten better at identifying scammers and blocking their numbers, but it remains a cat-and-mouse game.
An AI bot that frustrates scammers by answering and wasting their time is better than nothing.
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