A century ago, Willie Sutton robbed banks with guns “because that was where the money was.” Today, with the rise of online banking, digital transactions, and electronic money, scam artists and fraudsters use phishing emails, hacks, synthetic identities and all sorts of scams to steal from people and financial institutions. In response to this new era of theft, firms are utilizing artificial intelligence programs designed to detect, deter, and stop scams and frauds.
On Wednesday, May 7 the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution convened a panel of leading experts from Block, JP Morgan Chase, and FinRegLab to discuss the potential for AI as a new weapon to fight fraud and scams.