Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title Page -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Reader Support for This Book -- Chapter 1: Artificial Social Intelligence -- Positronic Man -- Defining (Artificial) Social Intelligence -- The Turing Test -- The Semblance of Social Intelligence -- The Question of Weaponization -- Chapter 2: Social Engineering and Psychological Exploitation -- The Roots of Social Engineering -- Social Engineering and Psychology -- Applied Social Engineering -- One Principle to Rule Them -- The Long Con -- Loose Lips Sink Ships -- The Takeaway -- Chapter 3: A History of Technology and Social Engineering -- Advertising -- Propaganda -- Cybercrime -- The Rise of the Bots -- The Worst Is Yet to Come -- Chapter 4: A History of Language Modeling -- Rule-Based NLP Systems -- Statistical Language Models -- Rule-Based vs. Statistical Models -- Note -- Chapter 5: Consciousness, Sentience, and Understanding -- Mad as a Hatter -- The Question of Consciousness -- The Sentience Scare -- Chapter 6: The Imitation Game -- The Chinese Room -- The Democratization of Machine Interaction -- Emergent Properties -- Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback -- Likeable Robots -- The Illusion of Empathy -- Chapter 7: Weaponizing Social Intelligence -- Where's the Risk? -- The Spontaneous and Organic Occurrence of Turing Tests -- Bot or Not?â€"CAPTCHA Evasion -- Creating the Illusion of Conversation -- Context Crafting -- Unleash the Bots -- Conversational Relays with LLMs -- Optimizing Social Engineering with Monte Carlo Simulations -- Remaining under the Radar -- The Impending AI Scourge -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Weaponizing Technical Intelligence -- Unintended Technical Problems -- Deliberate Technical Exploitation -- Note -- Chapter 9: Multimodal Manipulation -- Converging on Transformers -- Deepfake Imagery -- Sociopolitical Destabilization.

Voice Synthesis and Duplication -- Physical Robotics -- The Takeaway -- Chapter 10: The Future -- Physical Embodiment -- Inside the Echo Chamber -- Artificial Super Intelligence -- Singularity -- Cognitive Integration (BCI) -- Note -- Chapter 11: The Quest for Resolution -- Tactical Solutions -- Stopping a Runaway Train -- AI Risk Management -- Global Partnership -- Appendix A: Bot Automation -- Browser Emulation -- Browser Automation -- Appendix B: LLM Pretext Engineering -- Social Security Administration Proof of Concept -- Credential Harvesting Proof of Concept -- Wire Fraud Proof of Concept -- Appendix C: CAPTCHA Bypass -- Appendix D: Context Manipulation Attacks -- Appendix E: Attack Optimization with Monte Carlo Simulations -- Appendix F: Autonomous C2 Operations with LLMs -- Appendix G: Disembodiment Attacks -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Index -- Copyright -- Dedication -- End User License Agreement.