Reclaiming Social Engineering for Good

This story from IEEE Spectrum AI is relevant to the Research branch of the AI ecosystem and may affect models, products, or research direction.

“Social engineering” sounds like something out of a conspiracy thriller, charged with totalitarian control and fringe paranoia. More mundanely, it’s come to be associated with phishing and other scams, in which fraudsters manipulate people into disclosing

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