Fired IRS agents will be replaced with AI, says Treasury Sec

Fired IRS agents will be replaced with AI, says Treasury Sec

Following considerable cuts to its enforcement workforce, the US’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to use AI to supplement its ability to collect taxes from US citizens. 

News of the IRS’s plan came from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a House Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday to discuss the Treasury’s budget proposal. (The IRS is a subsidiary of the Treasury.) When asked by Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD) whether proposed reductions in the IRS’s IT budget, along with…

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