Fraudsters prey on human psychology. The most effective AI defences win by weaponising theirs. There is a phone ringing somewhere in a call centre. A scammer picks up, settles into their script, and begins working through the familiar choreography of a con. Urgency, authority, manufactured trust. They have done this hundreds of times. They know how it goes. Except this time, the person on the other end is an elderly woman named Daisy, chatty and warmly scatterbrained, and deeply interested in telling them about her cat, Fluffy. She can’t quite remember her bank details. She wonders if they could hold on a moment. She is, by any measure, the perfect target. She is also not a person at all. Seventy-eight years old, infinitely patient, entirely artificial. Image source. Daisy is a conversatio
