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Facts Matter

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

Facts Matter

The Epoch Times

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Now, moving along, if you are anything like me, then you absolutely dislike paying taxes,

0:06.9

especially in a year where all these different Medicare, Medicaid, EBT, hospice, learning center,

0:15.2

autism-related fraud was uncovered.

0:18.4

It's hard to feel enthusiastic about giving the federal government any of my

0:22.6

money. And they know that, evidenced by the fact that the IRS recently launched a pilot program

0:29.0

in which they're using Palantir AI technology to help them figure out who needs to be audited,

0:35.2

meaning that as fun as it was in previous years to pay taxes

0:39.4

and then have some federal bureaucrat decide whether or not you deserve an audit, moving forward,

0:45.3

it'll actually be decided by an AI machine, sort of like a tax GPT, if you will. Now, to be fair,

0:52.6

even though it is getting implemented right now, this isn't

0:55.8

actually anything new. The first announcement warning Americans of the IRS using AI, it came out

1:02.0

all the way back in the year 2023. That was when the then commissioner of the IRS, Mr. Daniel

1:07.1

Werfel, said the following as a part of a statement. Quote,

1:15.5

There is a sea change taking place at the IRS in every aspect of our operations.

1:20.2

The changes will be driven with the help of improved technology, as well as artificial intelligence that will help IRS compliance teams better detect cheating, identify

1:25.0

emerging compliance threats, and improve case selection tools

1:28.7

to avoid burdening taxpayers with needless no-change audits.

1:33.0

Now, this shift towards AI, it requires a bit of background, as well as it requires you

1:38.7

to smash those like and subscribe buttons, please, so this YouTube video can be picked up by

1:43.0

the algorithm and shared out to

1:44.2

everyone more people on this platform. Thank you so much for that. And with that caveat out of the way,

1:49.7

this shift to AI or AI-based tax compliance, it comes as a direct result of the Inflation Reduction

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