Refunds & AI Shopping

Getting a tax refund this year? Dangerous Dave talks about how refunds are up this year. Plus, would you use AI to shop for you? Most people would not.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please s up deeper in the den with dangerous date.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I say, April showers bring May flowers. So maybe you
could expect a happy month in May, because the IRS
gonna make it rain. Official stats out about this year's
tax season. Overall, IRS paid out more than two hundred
ninety six billion in refunds. That's up seventeen percent from
last year, when they refunded two hundred and fifty three billion.
Average refund three two hundred and seventy five dollars, up

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three hundred and thirty three dollars for the twenty nine
to forty two at this time last year, That average
could inch up or down by December, depending on those
who filed extensions. IRS had received more than one hundred
and forty million tax returns by the week ending April seventeenth.
Of those returns, sixty five percent world refunds, and forty
four point four million more people got refunds this year

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than last year.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
So hope you remembered to file your.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Taxes, and hope you got some of your own money
just back deeper in the two. Would you trust your
teenager to take twenty five dollars from your wallet and
go to the store and pick up something for their
on's birthday. Now here's another question, would you trust AI
more or less with the same task. A new survey asked,
if you're using AI agents to help you shop, how

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much would you be comfortable with spending without your final approval.
Twenty percent said they'd be cool with using AI shopping
to make a final decision. Ten percent said they'd be
willing to let AI agents spend more than twenty five
bucks or ten percents that would have to be twenty
five bucks are under. Twenty four percent said they'd let
AI shop for them, but they would need to make

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all final decisions so the money couldn't be spent without
their approval. Fifty six percent said they would not let
an AI agent shop for them at all. Those percentages
were similar across to all ages. Millennials slightly more likely
to let AI spend their money, well Boomers slightly less.
Survey didn't ask how many of these people have already
tried to use AI chatbots to help them research and

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recommend products, but there's a good chance those people that
had positive experiences with it are more likely to trust
AI agents to shop for them people who haven't tried
it or had a negative experience, probably less trusting, like
asking an AI agent for a Mother's Day gift idea
and being told world, okayest mom mug would be great
along with a ten dollars gift card for coffee.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
I don't know. I think if I asked AI what
I should give my wife for Mother's Day or her birthday,
and it probably just tell me to shut up for
a while.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
To it again for another episode of Deeper in the
Den with Dangerous daved right here.