The Algorithm Did It

How AI Became the Perfect Fall Guy for Wall Street Fraud, Deepfake Scams, and Corporate Denial

Deregulated AI Is Robbing America Blind

The phone rang, and the voice on the other end was unmistakable: a teenage girl, crying, terrified, saying she’d been kidnapped. Her mother panicked. The voice was her daughter’s. Down to the inflection, the breath, the hesitation in how she said “Mom.” But it was a lie—generated by artificial intelligence, trained on scraps of her voice found online. A few seconds from a school video or voicemail was all it took to build a synthetic version that convinced her own mother she was in danger.

And the worst part? It was legal.