Cybersecurity funds should go towards beefing up Centrelink voice authentication, Greens say

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David Shoebridge says some of the $10bn allocated to Redspice program should counter misuse of AI

The federal government should be using some of the $10bn allocated in the budget to cybersecurity defences to combat people using AI to bypass biometric securities including voice authentication, a Greens senator has said.

On Friday Guardian Australia reported that Centrelink’s voice authentication system can be tricked using a free online AI cloning service and just four minutes of audio of the user’s voice.

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