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cs702yesterday at 7:24 PM1 replyview on HN

It's not hard to imagine that will be able to do as good a job as a human accountant in the not too distant future.

It's also not hard to imagine tax authorities using AI to audit everyone's tax returns every year.

We sure live in interesting times.


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Obscurity4340yesterday at 7:32 PM

The real test to see if AI is just a rich person thing will be to see how the tax authorities treat it, even for more complex returns.

They can save humans for the really complex edge case stuff but at the end of the day, the tax code is just checkboxes and input forms that get boiled down into Integers, Floats/Doubles and enumerated choices with some Strings for deductions

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