I'm guessing this will lead to some sort of global identification system, so we know for sure someone isn't AI.

If this attack worked, voice impressionists would have been used already. I doubt this will be even a little effective except to drum up anti-AI panic, which it will probably do well.

amongst the reasons that the US government spent a bajillion dollars on the world's most secure communications system is to prevent exactly this sort of thing.

the fact that the entire federal government is run by deeply fucking stupid people who are not at all interested in the security of the state is the problem here, for once the AI vendors are not the problem.

The telephon system is pretty much totally broken.

Can you trust incoming numbers? No they can be spoofed. Can you trust the sound of voice? Nope, AI. Can you trust companies to enforce anti robocall and other privacy legislation? Hell no.

US mail isn't much better. The fact that seniors have been scammed by us mail for five decades or more with no improvement to regulation or protection is an embarrassment.

Email of course is a lost cause.

Does anyone happen to know this regime's codeword for "the jig is up, time to bug out to China" ? Asking for 350 million friends.

I am more concerned with why this just refuses to be funny, is it that humor would take more involvment and knowledge of the details?, is it serious or a fanatical prank?, both? I hope someone does a late night skit on this and saves me the spit required to figure it out.