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David Schweikert: “You could use AI to audit the Pentagon.”

Featuring: David Schweikert, Republican | U.S. House, Arizona, District 1

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Published April 30, 2024 | Video Starts at 32:40

Turns out that a couple of the biggest and a couple small ones, audit companies, CPA companies, compliance companies, have come up with audit AI, artificial intelligence that crawls through the books, crawls through the inventory, crawls through the asset list. You could use AI to audit the Pentagon. And if that works, you could use AI to look for fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs. How about durable equipment fraud that you read about so often? (32:40–32:44)

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Asserts that AI could be used to audit the Pentagon's finances.

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