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State of AI Phishing 2026
What Threat Terminal Data Reveals About Human Detection Gaps
By Scott Altiparmak · Based on data from the Threat Terminal experiment.
What's Inside
- Which of six phishing techniques bypass trained humans most often
- How confidence calibration reveals where people are wrong and sure of it
- Whether security professionals actually outperform other groups
- What authentication signals (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) do and don't tell recipients
- Practical recommendations for security awareness programs
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Background
This report is based on data collected through Threat Terminal, a game-based research platform where players classify AI-generated emails. The study protocol has been published on Zenodo, and findings update in real time as data comes in.