Christian OsgoodCEO, Multifamily Strategy · CEO at Multifamily Strategy

AI Weaponizes Human Trust

20 May 2026 · 1 min

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AI now enables criminals to clone voices and create deepfakes from social media scraps, letting them impersonate spouses, CEOs, and politicians with near-perfect accuracy. These "neural puppets" exploit how our brains trust familiar voices and faces, replacing mass phishing with precision fraud that feels completely human.

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And so AI has truly stripped away the clumsy red flags of traditional fraud is what it's done. You know, in the past, criminals relied on what we would call blunder force phishing, you know, mass blasting emails riddled with scammer grammar. Today, AI allows for high precision impersonation at scale, truly. Criminals now use what we call neural puppetry to create perfect lies. And by scraping just seconds of audio and a little bit of video from social media of you and I, they're using voice cloning, and full-blown deepfakes to impersonate a trusted source like a spouse, a CEO, an attorney, a politician with truly 100% accuracy. And what this does is, is it weaponizes— it truly weaponizes our— yours and mine— biological default to trust, making the deception 100% human.