When AI usurp the identity of students, millions of dollars are diverted

The phenomenon is not isolated and already costs millions of dollars to establishments. As for students, they are deprived of real opportunities. AI exploits Personal data stolen during hacks : names, addresses, social security numbers and school files to create false students profiles. The goal is to deceive the admission filters.

IA students to divert school aid

When these chatbots are accepted, pirates ask for scholarships and loans on the back of real students. Worse still: AIs are quite often connected to online courses to perceive the funds and then disappear in the wild with the loot.

Virtual classrooms are populated by artificial impostors. The situation is absurd with real students who struggle to access training while establishments finance, unwittingly, AI who pretend to be humans.

Community colleges and major public universities are targets of choice according to theAssociated Press. The large amount of candidates and limited resources prevent manual verification from each student. Financial losses accumulate quickly with little hope of recovering the diverted funds.

This AI scam is not running out of steam. Automation of admission processes facilitates the work of crooks which perfection the infiltration techniques. The establishments have no choice, it will be necessary to rethink the verification system to distinguish humans from chatbots. Private data protection is also important for students not to turn into AI despite themselves.