AI is accelerating at a rate that forces us to rethink not only what systems can create, but also what bad actors can abuse. The same advances that let machines compose music, synthesize voices or generate hyper-real imagery also lower the bar for realistic deception. Left unchecked, these capabilities will amplify traditional scams and enable new classes of fraud that are far harder to detect.
Below I outline the major risk vectors, why they matter and-critically-concrete safeguards we should implement now across engineering, product design, policy and everyday practice to reduce harm.