Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans

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Fred Heiding of Menlo Park Intelligence talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his research on frontier models, and their ability to influence human behavior and create emotional dependency.

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  1. Dark ReadingEstablished SourceFirst reported

    2026-09-11 18:14 UTC

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