AI Agents Are Now Executing Phone Attacks | Kevin Tian

AI agents enable multi-channel social-engineering attacks at scale, driving demand for AI-native defense platforms like Doppel.

• Origin story: Doppel (short for 'Doppelganger') was founded by ex-Uber engineers Kevin Tian and Rahul after a 2022 preview of AI tech convinced them social engineering, deepfakes and phishing would become AI's biggest threat vector.
• Multi-channel AI attacks: Doppel's own AI agents, used defensively, average nine-minute phone conversations, illustrating how attackers can now run sophisticated voice, SMS, email and video-deepfake campaigns at scale.

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