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I honestly have no clue what people expect ai to "obsolete". The world doesn't work like that.

My friend is a tax accountant. I hope I am wrong, but I am worried for her entire profession. It seems more about memorization of the massive & enormously complex tax code, and less about actual problem solving. This seems very well suited to an AI. I suspect such professions will be decimated in the near future.

Worry about your friend’s human outcomes of her profession being automated out of existence, but not for the profession of tax accounting. The less people that have to waste their lives parsing through tax code documents, the better, IMO.

Fyi decimation means reduced by 10%. The term comes from executing one in ten soldiers in a unit that refuses to follow orders.

Anyway, I'm curious how an AI would look for someone embezzling funds. There's more to the job than just memorizing calculation pipelines. I know I wouldn't use an AI accountant unless the state accepted liability for its failures.

I sort of agree, but this ignores a more realistic problem. In areas where demand for units (things or services) isn’t likely to grow at least proportionally to price drops, the introduction of a tool which makes one person 3x as productive will drive down wages and force people out of the profession.

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