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The Internal Revenue Service announced that it will begin using artificial intelligence technology in order to police U.S. citizens, raising concerns about weaponization of the software against conservatives, the Epoch Times reported.
“Right now, I believe that there are AI solutions that we have not yet leveraged that exist today that can help with some of these basic questions to the benefit of taxpayers,” said IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel at an April 17 summit in Washington, D.C. intended to celebrate the integration of the emerging dystopian technology into the public sector.
“And on the other side of the equation, we are using AI today to do even more to unlock and spot this complexity,” added Werfel, who was recently grilled by two separate House panels following an inspector general’s report that outlined shocking security flaws within the agency and amid ongoing questions about its targeting of conservative groups.
Werfel said that the software could spot highly elaborate tax schemes and prevent fraud and waste within the IRS.
However, tech experts warned that the IRS may have more nefarious plans for the technology, as it might open up the door for very targeted discrimination.
“This technology really gives the IRS a shield to bulk flag anyone it finds problematic, which is very troubling,” said Jake Denton, a research associate at the Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center. “The effect of this can be absolutely devastating because essentially the IRS could weaponize it, and no one would have any idea.”
Recent allegations from House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer, R-Ky., that Werfel was selectively enforcing tax-exempt rules for conservative groups and not leftist ones evoked bitter memories of the Obama-era scandal surrounding IRS official Lois Lerner, who ultimately was held in contempt of Congress for pleading the Fifth and refusing to testify, but was never prosecuted.
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