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Hearing Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, chatbots, and the new frontier of senior fraud.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026 · Transcript · 10 transcript matches
MATTHEW F. FERRARO, ESQ. "For example, fraudsters use AI to generate fake ads featuring the likenesses of celebrities and trusted professionals to sell a range of goods, from cryptocurrency to medical cures, as we've heard. Scammers have also cloned the voices of family members, telling their victims their loved ones have been kidnapped and demanding ransom, as Ms. Del Mastro testified so powerfully to a few minutes ago. And romance scammers can use AI-generated imagery to build ersatz emotional relationships with victims before stealing their money and their personal"
Testimony MATTHEW F. FERRARO, ESQ.
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"For example, fraudsters use AI to generate fake ads featuring the likenesses of celebrities and trusted professionals to sell a range of goods, from cryptocurrency to medical cures, as we've heard. Scammers have also cloned the voices of family members, telling their victims their loved ones have been kidnapped and demanding ransom, as Ms. Del Mastro testified so powerfully to a few minutes ago. And romance scammers can use AI-generated imagery to build ersatz emotional relationships with..."
Testimony TUBERVILLE, TOMMY
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Give us your solution. Ms Del Mastro, I feel your pain. My mother-in-law got scammed, and this is internationally. She got a call from my granddaughter. She was in Europe. Please send $10,000. I need it bad. I'm broke. I've got to get out of this situation. She sent it. She sent it. She wasn't in trouble other than the fact she just needed the money. It sounded just like her. What kind of legislation do you think we need to do for something like this? Have you talked to anybody since your..."
Testimony KELLY, MARK
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"And here's the thing. These systems are evolving very quickly, even just quickly in the last few weeks. And there's a lot that we don't know, and there's a lot that the developers themselves don't know about what some of these products are capable of. Older Americans need to be included in this conversation and not treated as just some afterthought as these products are developed and deployed. About one in five Arizonans in my state are over the age of 65. And when I hear from seniors in my..."
Testimony SCOTT, RICK
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"All right, thank you. Ms. Del Mastro, what did you do immediately after realizing that you had been scammed? Were you able to recover any of the funds that were lost? How did you lose those funds affect you and your husband's financial situation? Take your"
Testimony ALSOBROOKS, ANGELA D.
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"and we should not wait for more families to suffer. Ms. Del Mastro, my first question is for you. I was able to watch your I was able to watch your testimony, and I want to thank you so much for being here and for being willing to share what happened to you. I am also the mother of a daughter, so I can only imagine the true trauma that you experienced that day, and I know it's not easy to relive those five hours, and I'm so sorry for what you and your family had to endure. Now, I want to be..."
Testimony GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E.
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Thank you all for your testimony. Ms. Del Mastro and Dr. Amron, I am furious on your behalf. I am stunned with how much injustice there is around these type of scams. I have personal friends who got targeted and wind up sending money in a crypto machine to some unknown"
Testimony PAUL BENDA
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"Thank you for the question, Senator, and I share your rage at this instance. I think a great example is Ms. Del Mastro's point that a local caller ID was used. If it said international caller on that phone, would that have maybe raised some eyebrows or unknown"
Testimony GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E.
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"It would put the FBI in charge of a multi-agency effort to build national strategies on scams. effort to build national strategies on scams. Based on your federal experience, how does the lack of coordination of these agencies affect our ability to push back, and what would a national strategy do to combat AI-driven scams? And I'm out of time, so I just want to end with Dr. Amron and Ms. Del Mastro. What happened to you is unacceptable. It is pure criminality. It is undermining to your sense of..."
Testimony GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E.
Hearings to examine the AI deception machine, focusing on deepfakes, c...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Jul 29, 2026
"What do you want from Congress and from law enforcement to do to help others who don't know this could happen to them, to give you better recourse when it happens? If you could just have a magic wand and solve this problem, what advice would you give to the senators? Ms. Del Mastro? Thank you for sharing your story. It's infuriating, and we are up against hundreds of thousands of criminals doing this every day, stealing billions of dollars from Americans. And we're very trusting. They use our..."