AI-generated audio that mimics humans can be so convincing that people can't tell the difference a quarter of the time – even when they're trained to identify faked voices, a new study claims.

Artificial intelligence is supercharging audio deepfakes, with alarm bells ringing in areas from politics to financial fraud. The stakes are high. Detection software getting it wrong can carry serious ...

Imagine the following scenario: A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day ...