AI in 5: Digital Doppelgängers, AI Tax Sleuths, and The Green Dividend: 3 AI Stories You Can’t Miss (November 18, 2025)

Episode Summary 🚀

Host Doctor JR tackles three current, high-impact stories where AI meets messy human reality. We explore the bizarre emotional and professional fallout of advanced AI, blending wit with critical insight.

Stories Covered 🎭🏛️💚

1. The Digital Doppelgänger Dilemma: What happens when an AI, trained on your professional life, can do your job better than you can? We discuss the rise of personalized LLMs that mimic their human creators perfectly, leading to an identity crisis and questioning the value of human labor.
   • Quote: Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty: “AI will not replace humans, but those who use AI will replace those who don't.”
2. The IRS’s New Best Friend: The AI Tax Sleuth: The IRS is deploying sophisticated AI and Machine Learning to target high-income tax evaders and complex financial fraud. The AI analyzes vast datasets to find anomalies traditional audits missed, making tax accountability precise and unavoidable.
   • Expert Insight: Tax attorney and professor Andrew Blair-Stanek on the challenge of "clever taxpayers" combining legal rulings for maximum savings—a game the new AI is built to win.
3. Health and Hilarity: AI's Green Dividend: A look at AI's quiet, positive impact:
   • In Public Health, AI systems like VaxSeer are proving more accurate than traditional methods for predicting flu vaccine strains.
   • In Sustainability, AI-driven Digital Twins in construction reduce the need for site travel, leading to a measurable "green dividend" of reduced carbon emissions.

Quick Hitters (Recent AI Developments) 📰

• Deepfake Drama: Legal action planned in Louisiana after explicit AI-generated images of a student were allegedly shared, underscoring urgent regulatory needs (CBS News).
• The AI Debt Bubble: Big Tech (Amazon, Meta, Oracle) is issuing billions in debt to finance massive AI infrastructure buildout, raising investor concerns (Morningstar).
• AI for Infertility: Columbia University researchers reported the first successful pregnancy using an AI method developed to assist with male infertility (CBS News).

APA Citations (Key Sources) 📚

• Ryan & Wetmore. (2025). IRS Using AI for Tax Audits.
• Van Durme, B., & Blair-Stanek, A. (2023). Tax loopholes abound, but AI could shut them down. JHU Hub.
• CBS News. (2025). Dad speaks out after students allegedly share explicit deepfake of his daughter.
• Wiltermuth, J. (2025). Amazon joins AI-related debt blitz. Morningstar.