Fears grow about AI scams: How concerned should you be? [Video]

Apple’s newest phone is expected to include a long list of artificial intelligence features. And while many consumers are embracing these new tools, others have concerns about AI and worry it will make it harder to identify potential scams.

But avoiding it is getting tougher and tougher, as AI is coming to just about everything we use and touch, from new iPhones, the next generation of laptops (featuring Microsoft’s Windows Copilot), and perhaps even your next kitchen appliances.

Consumers have many concerns

If you have mixed feelings about AI, you’re not alone.

“It might help out,” one woman sitting outside at lunch said. “Maybe, maybe not. But it’s scary!”

Patrick Bolling, also enjoying lunch on a nice September day, says he’s uneasy.

“I’m scared to death of it,” he said.

Especially in an election year, he says, “You can’t trust anything, and you can’t believe anything.”

A new survey from the company Boss Revolutioncaptures Americans’ concerns about AI as 48% say they feel less “scam-savvy.” One in …