20. Carina Zehetmaier - Taxtastic: Income tax declaration with AI and the responsible use of customer data

# Intro

Carina Zehetmaier, CEO and Co-Founder of Taxtastic an Austrian AI Startup that develops small business and consumer solutions for income tax declaration.

We cover multiple topics on today's show. Starting out with talking about the technical challenges, Carina and her Team are facing when digitizing receipts. Not only how they make use of methods from image analysis in order to extract the relevant information from receipts, but as well how they classify receipts based on methods from NLP in order to deceit if a receipt is tax relevant or not.

What I think makes this episode special is our discussion about the responsibilities companies have when designing end-user products that make use of privacy-relevant customer data. Those companies should form the start designing their products and services with privacy in mind, and how they have to think about the user data they collect.

In addition, we talk about the difficulty to develop AI-powered end-user products that customers can trust, while still being aware of their limitations and imperfections. 

We end the interview with Carina describing her work at Women in AI Austria to increase diversity in the field of AI and tech in general.

# References

Carina Zehetmaier : https://www.linkedin.com/in/carina-zehetmaier/

Taxtastic : https://taxtastic.at/

Woman in AI : https://www.womeninai.at/