{
  "id": 15702442,
  "title": "Game of Phones: Harnessing Game Theory and LLMs in 'Bot Wars' to Counteract Phone Scams",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/game-of-phones-harnessing-game-theory-and-llms-in-bot-wars-to",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-19T17:35:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.26781v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Phone scams impose substantial and growing costs on individuals and financial systems worldwide, yet existing countermeasures impose no resource cost on perpetrators. Strategic scam-baiting, in which automated agents engage scammers to deplete their operational capacity, offers a proactive alternative but requires dynamic strategy adaptation that static systems cannot provide. We introduce a…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}