Artificial intelligence (AI) can steal your passwords by listening to your keyboard strokes, recent study finds:

AI Can Now Steal Passwords With 95% Accuracy

Artificial intelligence (AI) can steal your passwords by listening to your keyboard strokes researchers have found In a recent study. ,(PDF)

By conducting tests on cellphones placed close to MacBook Pro keyboards, they discovered that AI is able to identify not just the sound of each keystroke but also its waveform, intensity, and timing. It is also able to recognise each user's particular typing style.

According to researchers from Durham University, University of Surrey, and University of London, AI on smartphones near video conferencing applications, like Zoom, and other commercially available programmes can also listen in when individuals log into accounts and websites.

However, in video conferencing, AI only detects passwords in 93% of cases.

The researchers said that this AI downside risk is “much more common than people think,” and that the number of microphones within audible range of keyboards has grown and is expected to continue to grow.

One of the ways to prevent AI from stealing sensitive passwords is by using password management software, such as Windows Hello, Touch ID, etc., to create, store, and embed secure passwords, Metro says.

The software will automate your passwords, so you won’t need to remember them, but it will also eliminate the need to type them in and the risk of a malicious AI spy tapping into your phone or another device to steal your passwords.

You may also want to consider keeping devices with audio or microphones away from your computers and/or laptops where you access your accounts.

What to do if AI malware ends up on a laptop or computer, as opposed to on a different smartphone close to a laptop or computer, was not addressed by the researchers.