
The head of Sberbank said that the volume of funds stolen from citizens using artificial intelligence last year reached 350 billion rubles.
In 2023, the volume of funds stolen from citizens using artificial intelligence reached a record 350 billion rubles, said Sberbank Chairman German Gref at the Moscow Startup Summit.
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German Gref announced statistics on thefts from citizens using AI at the Moscow Startup Summit.
Last year, a record was set in terms of financial funds stolen from citizens through the use of artificial intelligence. Sberbank Chairman German Gref spoke about this on September 29 at the Moscow Startup Summit, reports a Lenta.ru correspondent.
“According to our estimates, these figures have reached 350 billion rubles. All thieves in law and all the other scammers that exist are just petty criminals compared to what is happening now,” said the head of Sberbank.
The entry to the market of models such as Mythos (a new artificial intelligence model from Antrophic) and the latest GPT-6 Astra showed that it is possible to hack systems that have functioned for decades within a few hours, Gref noted.
According to him, this has become one of the biggest problems in the technology sector, as fraudsters use artificial intelligence, the latest models, in their operations. It will not be possible to solve this issue without using neural networks, he concluded.

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