---
title: How an AI Granny Is Combating Phone Scams
metaTitle: "AI Granny Combating Phone Scams"
description: "Daisy is an 'AI granny,' a simulated person who talks slowly, is technologically inept, and keeps scammers on the line wasting their efforts for hours."
slug: ai-granny-combating-phone-scams
date: "2024-11-26T12:00:00-05:00"
featured: true
image:
  src: "https://cdn.securelogix.dev/slx/images/daisy-ai-granny.webp"
  alt: "An older woman holding her phone in front of her face, smiling and waving at it."
sourcePublisher:
  name: CNN
  url: "https://www.cnn.com/"
sourceArticle:
  url: "https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/26/business/daisy-ai-granny-scammers-o2-intl/index.html"
tags: [Robocalls, AI]
status: published
---

## How an AI Granny is Combating Phone Scams

At first glance, Daisy looks like your stereotypical grandmother: She loves knitting and talking about her family, has a cat named Fluffy, is technologically inept and has plenty of time to shoot the breeze.

But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find her to be exceptionally tech-enabled, with a few cunning tricks up her sleeve.

That’s because Daisy is a conversational artificial intelligence chatbot created by British mobile phone company O2 to help combat fraud by tricking phone scammers into thinking they are speaking to a real person...