Few would argue fake money poses no threat to the financial system. If you can't trust that currency is real, buying and selling gets more difficult, with implications for the economy. But according to one noted author, not enough attention goes to another danger: A.I. bots on social media pretending to be real people.
“Now it is possible, for the first time in history, to create fake people—to create billions of fake people,” Israeli historian and author Yuval Noah Harari said this week. “You interact with somebody online, and you don't know if it's a real human being or a bot.”
