Impersonation Fraud Explosion: Why AI Bots Are Handing Criminals Superpowers and Why Detection Alone Won't Save Us
Agentic AI has made impersonation faster, cheaper, and easier to scale. Criminals can now automate research, clone voices, generate convincing deepfakes, and run social engineering campaigns with a level of realism that is difficult to detect. As detection tools struggle to keep pace, a more durable question emerges: whether the future of trust lies in spotting fakes or in proving who we are actually communicating with.