Safe and Inclusive E‑Society: How Lithuania Is Bracing for AI‑Driven Cyber Fraud

The article outlines Lithuania’s KTU-led ‘Safe and Inclusive E-Society’ mission — a €24.1M national initiative combining universities, industry, and government to bolster e-security and digital resilience — while warning that generative AI and multimodal tools (LLMs, voice cloning, deepfakes, automated agents) are enabling highly realistic, scalable fraud and adaptive social engineering; it emphasizes developing AI-driven defenses, cross-sector collaboration, and continuous education to counter these evolving threats.