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What if AI can greatly reduce the amount of money (i.e. tax receipts) that the government needs to function properly? What if AI can quickly determine who really qualifies for government assistance, and cuts off all the fraudsters without needing an army of bureaucrats?

We could even cut out a ton of middle-men and return congress to a part-time job. One can only dream, right?





> What if AI can quickly determine who really qualifies for government assistance, and cuts off all the fraudsters without needing an army of bureaucrats?

Australia tried that, and it did not go well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme


Eliminating all fraud for government assistance would not meaningfully change the overall budget.

Also, basically all efforts claiming to tackle fraud in government assistance are actually efforts to deny people assistance who do qualify for it.




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