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Rosenworcel Asks Carriers How They Will Stop AI-Assisted Fake Political Robocalls

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel asked nine telecom companies how they will prevent politically motivated "fraudulent robocalls" that use AI (see 2204220051). A Thursday news release said Rosenworcel sent letters to AT&T, Charter, Comcast, Cox, Dish, Frontier, Lumen, T-Mobile and Verizon.…

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The letters come after the agency responded to an AI-assisted fraudulent robocall campaign that targeted New Hampshire voters (see 2402060087). "This is just the beginning," Rosenworcel said. "We know that AI technologies will make it cheap and easy to flood our networks with deepfakes," she said: "As AI tools become more accessible to bad actors and scammers, we need to do everything we can to keep this junk off our networks."