Frontier AI models now beat CPAs on accounting tasks that humans won as of May 2025
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-02
New research hired 12 CPAs to complete four realistic accounting tasks, then had AI models from recent years do the same work. As of May 2025, human accountants still outperformed AI on these tasks. Today's frontier models, however, are near perfect on them — meaning the leaderboard has flipped within months. The thread documents this human-vs-AI benchmark timeline in detail.
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