The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced that it was using machine learning to detect 'fraud and improper payments' and that it had prevented and recovered $4 billion worth of such payments in the latest fiscal year.
'We've made significant progress during the past year in preventing over $4 billion in fraudulent and improper payments,' said the agency's deputy secretary, Wally Adeyemo, in a statement.
Engadget's Sarah Fielding pointed out one apparent paradox of this announcement - namely, that AI is also frequently used to carry out fraud.
Earlier this year, it announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor that provided anti-fraud technology to the state agencies responsible for issuing unemployment payments.
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