Jarod Koopman, executive director of cyber and forensics at the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, said IRS-CI is exploring the use of artificial intelligence as it tries to keep up with criminals who leverage AI tools to introduce more fraud schemes, Federal News Network reported Wednesday
“What used to take a significant amount of effort, going into some type of a social media-type exploit or a hack, they can now do this with AI that’s much more efficient, much more effective, and certainly much more volume at high speed,” Koopman said of fraudsters.
Using AI to Detect Patterns in Data
According to the IRS-CI official, his agency is using AI to better optimize the data already available to its personnel, including third-party data from other financial institutions and operational data from ongoing and previous casework.
“All of that data is pretty vast and it’s large volumes of data. AI has certainly made us much more effective and efficient in sifting through that to find patterns, to identify fraud methodologies or typologies, to identify current threats or vectors that might be red flags of issues that we were not aware of prior,” Koopman said.
“It’s like having AI and large language models be able to match up against our data internally to be able to give us the results and the outputs that we’re looking for to make decisions, not for the AI to use the data to make decisions directly,” he noted.