The financial industry just got a wake-up call from one of tech's top minds. At a Federal Reserve conference in Washington last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a blunt warning: Artificial intelligence has made it dangerously easy to impersonate someone's voice, putting billions of dollars and consumer trust at risk.
"Apparently, there are still some financial institutions that will accept the voiceprint as authentication," Altman said. "That is a crazy thing to still be doing. AI has fully defeated that." In other words: if your bank thinks a voice challenge is a security blanket, it's time to buy a new blanket.
