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AI-Era Threats and Verification

Hong Kong, early 2024. A finance worker at the engineering firm Arup receives an email from the company's UK office asking for a secret transaction and suspects it is phishing, which is the correct instinct.

Taught in F111-02 ›Source ↗

Start with lesson 16 lessons · about 3 hours · 1 lab · open to read

Lesson 1 opens on

The first AI section in the FBI Internet Crime Report

01 million complaints. It was the first dedicated section on artificial intelligence in the report's near quarter century of publication. The report stated that AI-enabled synthetic content is becoming increasingly difficult to detect and easier to make.

Read it in F111-01 ›The source ↗

The lessons

  1. F111-01How scammers use AI nowState precisely which three inputs to fraud got cheaper, and which part of the attack did not change at allabout 27 min · opens on The first AI section in the FBI Internet Crime Report
  2. F111-02Deepfakes and voice clonesExplain what a voice model actually learns, and why a short public clip is now sufficient inputabout 30 min · opens on The Ferrari executive and the book question
  3. F111-03Fake support, fake profiles, fake KOLsApply the sourcing rule that ends fake support, and name the two requests that terminate any conversationabout 30 min · opens on LIBRA, February 2025
  4. F111-04Verifying anything in the AI eraRun the four-step trace procedure on any claim that would change what you do with moneyabout 30 min · opens on The Pentagon explosion image, 22 May 2023
  5. F111-05Prompt injection and the agents that act for youExplain why a language model cannot reliably tell your instructions from instructions embedded in the data it readsabout 33 min · opens on EchoLeak, CVE-2025-32711
  6. F111-06Using AI tools safely as a creator or businessSort your material into three tiers before you paste, and name the tier that never enters any toolabout 30 min · opens on Samsung and ChatGPT, April 2023

Labs

  • F111-L

    The Verification Protocol

    Establish an out-of-band verification protocol with one real person who could plausibly be impersonated to you, then test it. Shared secret, callback channel, and a written rule that no legitimate process is ever destroyed by a five-minute delay.