Don’t trust Generative AI to do your taxes — and don’t trust it with people’s lives

garymarcus.substack.comGary Marcus2026年03月05日 17:53

From The New York Times’s Stuart Thompson today on AI and taxes:

One key passage:

Echoing exactly the kind of stuff I have been saying here for the last four years, the NYT reports that

Given all that, the second part of the title of this essay (“don’t trust it with people’s lives”) should be obvious.

But, then again, maybe it’s not. At least in certain parts of Washington:

Using a system you shouldn’t trust with your taxes to blow people up. 2026 in a nutshell.

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Postscript: Just when you thought this tragedy couldn’t get any stupider: