5 ways AI can help you do your taxes – and 10 tax tasks you shouldn't trust it with

In a recent test of ChatGPT’s Deep Research feature, the AI was asked to identify 20 jobs that OpenAI’s new o3 model was likely to replace. As ZDNET’s Sabrina Ortiz reported, “Right in time with tax return season, leading the table was the role of ‘tax preparer’ with a probability of 98% replacement, which ChatGPT deemed as ‘near-certain automation.'”

There is no doubt that retail tax preparation services are using some level of AI to reduce their workload, but while tax preparers…