DeepfakeHigh
Purported AI Voice Cloning Used to Impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio
- Occurred
- Jun 15, 2025
- Published
- Jul 9, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Sometime in mid-June 2025, an unknown actor reportedly used AI voice-cloning and text generation to impersonate U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The impostor allegedly contacted at least five high-level officials, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a member of Congress, via Signal and text messages. The actions reportedly aimed to manipulate targets into sharing sensitive information or account access.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- Unknown actors impersonating Marco Rubio
- Unknown actors
Harmed parties
- United States Department of State
- Officials targeted by impersonator of Marco Rubio
- Marco Rubio
- Government of the United States
- Epistemic integrity
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Tags
- deepfake
- impersonation
- scam
- United States
- syndicated
- abridged
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI voice cloning used to impersonate a high-ranking official and attempt to manipulate sensitive information sharing.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8