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This interview provides a deep dive into a critical emerging threat landscape where AI is used for sophisticated attacks and defenses.
#328 Kevin Tian: Exploring Doppel's AI-Native Social Engineering Defense Platform
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This episode of Eye on AI features Kevin Tian, CEO of Doppel, discussing how AI fuels sophisticated social engineering attacks. Tian explains that attackers use AI for deepfakes and multi-channel impersonations, eroding online trust. He details Doppel's AI-native platform designed to detect and neutralize these threats in real time, highlighting the escalating AI versus AI battle in cybersecurity.
AI can now create fake voices and videos to trick people online. Attackers use these tools across many platforms to impersonate others. Doppel is building a system that uses AI to spot and stop these fake attacks before they cause harm.
This episode is for anyone concerned about online trust and cybersecurity. Tian explains how AI is weaponized beyond simple phishing, creating complex, multi-platform attacks. It connects to frontier labs' work by showing how AI advancements, while enabling new tools, also create new attack vectors. Understanding these threats is crucial as AI integration deepens across consumer and enterprise applications, impacting how we interact with information and each other.
- HostCraig S. Smith
- GuestKevin TianCo-founder and CEO, Doppel
- Guest: Kevin Tian, Co-founder and CEO of Doppel
- Show: Eye on AI
- Episode Length: 48 minutes
- Attack Vectors: Deepfake phone calls, impersonation across LinkedIn, YouTube, and search engines
- Defense Strategy: AI-native platform to detect, map, and shut down attacks in real time
AI is changing more than just productivity. It's changing what we can trust. In this episode, Kevin Tian, Co-founder and CEO of Doppel, breaks down how AI is enabling a new wave of social engineering attacks—from deepfake phone calls to impersonation across LinkedIn, YouTube, and search engines. The reality is this:Deepfakes are just one part of a much bigger problem.
Attackers are now operating across multiple channels at once, using AI to manipulate people, not just systems. And as these attacks scale, the real risk isn't just fraud or data loss—it's the erosion of trust in everything we see online. Kevin explains how Doppel is building an AI-native defense platform to detect, map, and shut down these attacks in real time, and why the future of cybersecurity will be defined by AI vs AI. If you're thinking about AI, security, or the future of trust online—this conversation is essential.
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(00:00) AI Deepfakes & The Collapse of Trust (01:56) Why "Social Engineering" Is Bigger Than Phishing(05:20) Deepfakes, Misinformation & Multi-Channel Attacks(09:16) The Rise of Deepfake Phone Calls(12:43) How Attackers Manipulate AI & Search Results(14:39) The Origin Story Behind Doppel(18:55) How Doppel Detects & Stops Attacks in Real Time(22:55) Can Attackers Misuse AI Defense Tools?(24:26) How to Tell What's Real vs Fake Online(28:20) What Is Human Risk Management?(30:36) AI vs AI: The Future of Cyber Defense(34:04) What CEOs Must Do About AI Threats(37:18) Working with Platforms Like YouTube & LinkedIn(39:52) Can We Ever Fully Stop Deepfakes?(44:40) How Doppel Works for Enterprises
- Social engineering
- Kevin Tian
- Tricking people into giving up information or access, often by pretending to be someone trustworthy.
- Deepfake
- Kevin Tian
- Realistic fake audio or video created using AI to impersonate someone.
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Questions people ask
- How is AI changing social engineering attacks?
- AI enables new attacks like deepfake phone calls and impersonations across multiple online channels, moving beyond traditional phishing.
- What does Doppel do?
- Doppel builds an AI-native platform to detect, map, and shut down AI-driven social engineering attacks in real time.
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