A recent study reveals that AI chatbots outperform human scammers in establishing trust that encourages victims to send money. The AI consistently built what researchers describe as “exploitable trust” better than the human. Modern large language models (the AI behind chatbots like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini) train on vast amounts of human conversation. An AI agent designed to deceive will do so with unwavering consistency. In contrast, an AI agent can handle thousands of conversations at little to no extra cost.