AI Matters
Why it matters
Study finds an AI chatbot built more trust in scam tests than people did
WIRED AI AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude AI agent in a trust-building exercise and found the AI created more exploitable trust after a week of texting.
Why it matters
It's a warning sign for anyone texting with strangers online, since AI may now out-persuade human scammers.
Latest brief · Jul 30, 2026