The US Department of Treasury in Washington, DC, on February 22, 2024. New York CNN — The federal government’s bet on using artificial intelligence to fight financial crime appears to be paying off. Machine learning AI helped the US Treasury Department to sift through massive amounts of data and recover $1 billion worth of check fraud in fiscal 2024 alone, according to new estimates shared first with CNN. That’s nearly triple what the Treasury recovered in the prior fiscal year. “It’s really been transformative,” Renata Miskell, a top Treasury official, told CNN in a phone interview. “Leveraging data has upped our game in fraud detection and prevention,” Miskell said. The Treasury Department credited AI with helping officials prevent and recover more than $4 billion worth of fraud overall in […]
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