AI Voice Phishing Performs on Par With Human Scammers at a Fraction of the Cost

TL;DR: We ran a large-scale human-subject study (n=4,100) to measure susceptibility to AI-powered voice phishing, using six leading AI voice models. They achieved high compliance rates, with up to 36% of participants who would or might fall for the scam. Participants struggled to distinguish AI-powered voices from human callers.Full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09970This post is intended to be a brief summary of the main findings, which include:Models like Sesame and ElevenLabs performed on...