While every corporate worker today is probably familiar with HR-mandated trainings to try to combat “phishing”—scams that involve deception over email—and while “smishing,” which occurs over SMS messages, has become more prevalent, the FBI warned that “malicious actors are more frequently exploiting AI-generated audio to impersonate well-known, public figures or personal relations to increase the believability of their schemes” in what is known as “vishing.”

And officials at the highest levels of government have been impersonated and targeted, according to reports.

On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump’s Secretary of State and acting National Security Adviser, was the latest to be impersonated by an unknown individual, who used AI to mimic his voice and writing style in voice and text messages on the non-government encrypted communications app Signal to “three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a U.S. member of Congress,” according to a State Department cable sent July 3...