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FIRST ON FOX: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is launching an investigation alongside Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., into whether the IRS is using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to improperly surveil American taxpayers across the country.
In a pair of letters sent to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Attorney General Merrick Garland, the lawmakers point to a September 2023 press release in which the IRS said AI “will help IRS compliance teams better detect tax cheating, identify emerging compliance threats and improve case selection tools to avoid burdening taxpayers with needless ‘no-change’ audits.”
“However, recent reporting alleges that the IRS’s use of AI has also included actively monitoring American citizens’ bank accounts en masse and without legal process,” they wrote, citing a report by James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group.
O’Keefe released an investigative video in late February in which he went undercover to interview an IRS official, identified as Alex Mena.
Mena bragged to O”Keefe that the IRS can audit anyone they want, even when they have no evidence to justify it, and said the IRS uses an AI system to target “potential abusers.”
Mena said the AI system has access to everyone’s bank accounts, nationwide, and said the IRS ‘has no problem going after the small people, putting people in prison, and destroying people’s lives.’
In the letter, Jordan wrote, “Video footage obtained by an investigative media outlet appears to capture Alex Mena, an IRS official working in the agency’s Criminal Investigations Unit, admitting that the IRS has ‘a new system’ that uses AI to target ‘potential abusers’ by examining all returns, bank statements, and related financial information for ‘potential for fraud.’ Mena asserted that the new AI system has the ability to access and monitor ‘all the information from all the companies in the world.’”
Jordan and Hageman are demanding answers.
#NEW: Chairman @Jim_Jordan and @RepHageman open an inquiry into the IRS’s use of a new AI-powered system to surveil Americans’ financial information. pic.twitter.com/lAbtvDhwkX
— Weaponization Committee (@Weaponization) March 21, 2024
“@Weaponization opens investigation into accusations IRS is using AI to spy on taxpayers ‘en masse’”https://t.co/XRRXQECc8Z
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) March 21, 2024
★ SPECIAL REPORT: James O’Keefe releases undercover report on IRS [VIDEO]
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