{"id":211033,"date":"2026-05-08T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/ai-data-exchange-2026-pracs-ken-dieffenbach-on-using-ai-tools-to-stay-a-step-ahead-of-fraudsters\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:05:09","slug":"ai-data-exchange-2026-pracs-ken-dieffenbach-on-using-ai-tools-to-stay-a-step-ahead-of-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/ai-data-exchange-2026-pracs-ken-dieffenbach-on-using-ai-tools-to-stay-a-step-ahead-of-fraudsters\/","title":{"rendered":"AI &#038; Data Exchange 2026: PRAC\u2019s Ken Dieffenbach on using AI tools to stay a step ahead of fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/ai-data-exchange-2026-pracs-ken-dieffenbach-on-using-ai-tools-to-stay-a-step-ahead-of-fraudsters\/\">AI &#038; Data Exchange 2026: PRAC\u2019s Ken Dieffenbach on using AI tools to stay a step ahead of fraudsters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/ai-data-exchange-2026-pracs-ken-dieffenbach-on-using-ai-tools-to-stay-a-step-ahead-of-fraudsters\/\">https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/ai-data-exchange-2026-pracs-ken-dieffenbach-on-using-ai-tools-to-stay-a-step-ahead-of-fraudsters\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 13:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"federalnewsnetwork.com\">federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) continues to oversee over $5 trillion in pandemic-related emergency spending beyond its original sunset date in 2025. <\/li>\n<li>PRAC, established under the CARES Act in March 2020, has been extended through 2034 and now focuses on new funding oversight beyond just COVID-19 relief.<\/li>\n<li>PRAC implements artificial intelligence to analyze federal spending data and detect potential fraud more efficiently than human analysis alone.<\/li>\n<li>PRAC aims to evolve from a &#8220;pay and chase&#8221; approach to preventing fraud proactively by using AI tools to flag anomalies before payments are made.<\/li>\n<li>By validating simple datasets against others, such as the Social Security Administration&#8217;s Death Master File, PRAC identified millions of potentially fraudulent applications.<\/li>\n<li>Fraudsters are increasingly matching government efforts in adopting AI and other technologies, requiring PRAC to adapt and keep pace with evolving threats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI &#038; Data Exchange 2026: PRAC\u2019s Ken Dieffenbach on using AI tools to stay a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211035,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211033\/revisions\/211035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}