The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer from Nvidia

The rich would also be happy with a 30 percent national sales tax.

Isn't the IRS on the chopping block? I know they killed the free tax filing feature for citizen. I cannot keep track anymore.

Reading through the article, it's not one or two machines but 8 Blackwell nodes, so quite some firepower for compute. Wonder what part of the audit or tax prep requires a GPU farm.

The people maintaining the systems could use AI to grapple with transforming it faster, no? I mean, if you have to rewrite existing programs from 1995 all the time you might as well feed an AI the context and get some suggestions and just verify and test the changes instead of manually with pen and paper jotting out the tree of the sections and the database relations and how the architecture requires it to be and what new legislations need to be accounted for in what way etc etc..

So AI can be used to speed up transforming the existing infrastructure instead of AI doing the actual processing which would obviously be not the direct use case in anyones mind

It could also be implemented in less volumous tasks, like specialised scenarios like complex cases of fraud detection idk

A lot of developed countries do this.

They just sent you your assessment automatically with they you think you/they owe if anything, you need to file anything only there if you believe there is difference .

The US system is pretty backwards really, most of the taxes are deducted at source anyway the system already has a good idea of your income/taxes owed.

If IRS calculate returns at scale using tax deducted at source and employer info(W-2 etc) , unless you dispute their calculations there is no need for audit or paperwork at all reducing the cost of running IRS too.

This kills intuit so will never happen, but if it does it would be the single biggest revenue boost to the Government easily in tens if not 100's of billions of dollars.

If you're wondering if the "Efficiency Department" is actually about efficiency, or if they're just cosplaying political Santa Claus, look for cuts to the IRS.

The IRS is the most bang for the buck government department. Every dollar spent there nets out many more, because they're chronically under-resourced to audit the whales who can trivially hide their tax obligations.

Naturally whenever there's a hint that the department could be even close to properly funded, the media, overwhelmingly owned by the class of people who evade taxes as a sport, gin up controversy. It's no wonder that the richest man in the history of the world has bought his way into the building and been provided with gasoline and matches.