US IRS To Re-Evaluate Modernization Investments In Light of AI Technology (msn.com) 23
The IRS is pausing its technology modernization efforts to reassess its strategy in light of AI advancements. Reuters reports: The agency will review a number of technology modernization initiatives that have been taken in recent years, including a new direct free filing system for tax returns that was launched last year under the Biden administration, the official told reporters. The official said the IRS did not have a specific number of staff cuts in mind as a result of the technology pause, but said there would be an opportunity to "realign the workforce to those new ways of doing business."
...???...profit? (Score:2)
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And no one at the IRS cares.
I’ll have you know that’s not true, the AI that replaced all human workers to save money have been trained on caring datasets and the relevant empathy libraries are included. Of course the templates only limitation to actual AI means the IRS cannot ever go after large corporate criminal or extremely wealthy individual crimes ever again, only the little people.
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Who's fault do you think that is? Who hamstrings essential agencies at every opportunity? You'll find the answer on your voter registration card.
We fucking warned you.
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It is now, but it wasn't until very recently.
We're seeing now exactly what you crackpot conspiracy nuts have been saying was happening all along. It turns out that our government was not, in fact, overloaded with waste fraud and abuse. We're seeing what a government full of fraud and abuse looks like now. As for waste, to the surprise of no one with an IQ above room temperature, virtually all waste, fraud, and abuse comes from the private side of public-private partnerships.
Are you happy watching melon
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[citation needed]
Show any proof whatsoever that what you claim is even in the same time zone as true. I won't hold my breath.
it's already gone wrong (Score:1)
Making decisions based on probabilities is a strength of AI, that's what it does. Subjectivity is subjectivity, a "hallucination" is just a fancy name for a computer-generated guess, not really different from a human-generated guess.
But this is not about AI audit decisions, it's about praising the dear leader while sending money to a particular group of AI "leaders".
that warning is premature! (Score:2)
(*) as specified in the second amendment. Nothing to see here.
Honestly I expect to see it banned (Score:2)
Right now the 1% get out of pain billions and billions in taxes just by having Congress under staff the IRS.
As for you and me there are statutory requirements that a
lameness filter (Score:2)
If anything, it might actually start increasing the enforcement on high income earners better than what's happening today.
That is, unless they use Musk's AI. Then it will be tuned to put the hammer to the middle class and let high net worth individuals off scott free.
Translation (Score:4, Insightful)
Translation:
The IRS is killing anything which will reduce the payout to the owners of H&R Block, Intuit, etc. The masses have money which can be fleeced, and rich people can harvest that. The IRS will instead pump money into AI, because that's a way that the current government can siphon US funds off to push to rich folks which own AI concerns, Musk notably, but others as well. AI has the great benefit of being trainable on simple tax returns, so we effectively audit all middle-class and lower folks, while complex tax returns remain so individual AI probably won't be able to make an impact on auditing those -- and this government will make sure it's never tried.
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The rich already have the laws on their side. Nothing new under the sun.
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Correct, the AI investment will be directed to Musk.
"AI has the great benefit of being trainable on simple tax returns, so we effectively audit all middle-class and lower folks,..."
Training and inferencing are not the same.
"...while complex tax returns remain so individual AI probably won't be able to make an impact on auditing those..."
Nonsense. There would be plenty of data for training even more complex returns.
"...this government will make sure it's never tried."
Yes, of course that's true. But this is
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AI is meaningless. The whole point is to make it difficult or impossible for the IRS to audit complex returns, allowing corporations and the wealthy to cheat with impunity.
Welcome to the second gilded age. Expect it to be both very short and very painful.
Musk is pushing this (Score:2)
Will this be like him saying we'll have full self-driving cars in ten years, eleven years ago [jalopnik.com]?
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Elmo has been saying we'll have self-driving cars "next year" for the last decade. Why anyone still believes that nonsense is beyond me.
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Why anyone believes anything that ketamine junkie says is beyond me.
Remember when we used to worry about drug abusers being put in positions of power and making critical decisions? Those were the days.
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We do; they're called Waymo. [waymo.com] Have you heard of them?
just what we need (Score:2)
This is just what we all need.
A hallucinating AI that thinks you have money consolidates your movement data and then aligns that with other people with money. It'll be worse than a jealous spouse.
Seriously the old COBOL crap needed to die in the 90s.
Instead of AI (Score:2)
How about spreadsheets that mimic tax forms? Then at least the addition errors would go away.
For bonus points a cell that wants the entry from line x of form 1245 could look in the current folder for f1245, import the value if it exists, and if not enter a zero.
They make it a lot harder than it needs to be. Fortunately this year I only needed eight forms. Last year it was ten.
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The fact that the populace has to tell the government what they think they their balance is after filling out a series of ridiculously complex forms, and then the government gets to thumbs up / thumbs down to begin with is asinine when they already get duplicates of all the same paperwork and account balances.
It's a ridiculous situation that should have been reformed decades ago, and exactly the opposite of what should happen. Why can't they send an account statement with a process for challenging what's o