IRS Launches Pilot Program With Palantir AI Tools to Find People Needing Audits

About this episode

The episode discusses the IRS's new pilot program utilizing Palantir's AI technology to determine audit candidates.

It's been a long time coming: the IRS recently launched a pilot program using Palantir AI-technology to help it figure out who most needs to be audited. This means that, as fun as it was to pay taxes already—and then have a federal bureaucrat decide whether you deserve an audit or not—moving forward, the decision will be heavily influenced by an AI machine. Let's go through the details together.

Topics covered

• IRS
• Palantir
• AI technology
• tax audits
• government programs

Keywords

• IRS
• Palantir
• AI
• tax audits
• pilot program

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IRS, Palantir

Products: AI-technology

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