Artificial intelligence is rewriting the playbook for crime, from cheap deepfake scams and AI-written ransomware to mass identity hijacks and critical-infrastructure hacks.

Why it matters: This new class of AI-supercharged crime is putting lives and financial systems at risk. But police training, laws and cross-border tools aren't keeping up, futurists tell Axios. • Off-the-shelf AI lowers the skill level and cost of carrying out attacks, enabling small crews to execute schemes that previously required nation-state resources. • Crimes can now hit millions at once with voice clones and account takeovers, while local agencies are trained and funded to chase one case at a time.

How it works: AI can create automations to "lock pick" into a system millions of times per second, something h

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