Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast
Episode: Meet Daisy, the ‘AI granny’ taking on telephone scammers
Description: ‘AI granny’ Daisy is the latest weapon in the fight against phone scammers.
This AI-powered bot, developed by UK telecom company Virgin Media O2, is designed to outsmart fraudsters by keeping them tied up in conversation for hours. Daisy is the latest tool in the world of scam-baiting, a strategy where scammers are kept on the line to waste their time.
Charity Age UK estimates a fifth of all over 50s in the UK fear answering their phones because of scams.
Simon Valcarcel, Marketing Director at Virgin Media O2, says, “The reason we used AI is because it doesn’t sleep, i...