Must-follow phone call rule can save you from AI voice cloning breaking it even once puts you at serious scam risk [Video]

BE very careful when you answer the phone: Criminals might be waiting with a dangerous AI tool.

Cybersecurity experts have warned over crooks using artificial intelligence to clone the voices of victims.

AI can copy the voice of a person based on just a few seconds of audio.

And this can be used to create convincing AI audio deepfakes, which can be exploited by criminals to hoodwink your friends, family members, and colleagues out of money or info.

That’s why it’s very important to avoid picking up calls from unknown numbers and immediately speaking, experts told The U.S. Sun.

“Never answer calls from unknown numbers,” Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Advocate at Pixel Privacy, said.

“If a call from an unknown party is legitimate, they will likely leave a voice message telling you about the call.

“You can then return the call to a known good number and ask for the …