NORMAN — The transfer portal has given players a clearer view of what truly separates programs.

Even better, it lets outsiders like us — beyond the fortified walls of the sport’s football factories — gain real insight when players leave one school for another.

When players transfer away, you hope they have nothing but nice things to say following their exits. The last thing you want to hear is that the grass was in fact greener on the other side.

With Oklahoma’s new faces, the reviews thus far have been golden.

That means the system won’t conduct audits but will suggest where audits should be conducted, partly based on finding anomalies in the data.

“I think there are efficiencies to be gained by using AI,” said Bruckner, who cautioned that human oversight is needed to make sure software programs don’t have unintended discriminatory outcomes.

Bruckner is among the voices stressing the need for a cautious approach. In the conclusion of a paper for the IBM Center for The Business of Government titled “AI and the Modern Tax Agency,” she and co-author Collin Coil wrote that as agencies deploy AI “they must also develop oversight and governance structures to ensure ethical use, mitigate risks, foster transparency, and build trust with taxpayers.”

The South Carolina DOR’s audit process will be a closed-loop, Smith said, with information moving between the agency’s two FAST Enterprises products, the tax system GenTax and the audit review system FAS. The company already houses DOR’s data.

This also means personal financial information won’t be loaded into — or used to train — publicly available AI programs such as ChatGPT and Gemini.

The FAS system is also meant to learn from experience. The software “is nothing the public can get their hands on,” Smith said.

Going forward, and possibly backward, the state’s revenue agency expects to expand the audit reviews to a broader variety of tax returns, such as individuals’ tax returns. In cases where problems are flagged, the agency could look back over up to three years of prior returns.

Meanwhile, over at the state Department of Motor Vehicles, FAST Enterprises was awarded a 17-year contract in January to replace the DMV’s 2002 technology system.

“Customers can expect new services to be introduced incrementally during the implementation phase, with full system functionality projected by mid-2029,” the departments said in an announcement. The remaining 14 years of the contract are for ongoing system support.

SWEETWATER, Tenn. — Devon Dobie traded the lead twice with the defending Hoosier Racing Tire United Sprint Car Series Presented By XC Gear National Champion Dale Howard to win Night 2 of the North vs. South Shootout at I-75 Raceway on Saturday night.

The event was co-sanctioned by United Sprint Car Series and the Great Lakes Sprint Car Series.

Dobie led the first five laps of the 30-lap feature race, but Howard grabbed the lead on a lap six restart. Dobie was able to wrestle the lead back from Howard in lapped traffic on lap 18 to lead back the rest of the way. Chase Dunham of Leipsic, OH finished second and Howard, who was the Friday night winner, took the third spot.

Ryan Turner started 10th and finished fourth, while Jac Nickles was fifth.

The finish:

Feature (30 Laps):  1. 23 Devon Dobie, Wapakoneta, OH (1); 2. 66 Chase Dunham, Leipsic, OH (5); 3. 47 Dale Howard, Byhalia, MS (2); 4. 15 Ryan Turner, Dunnville, ON CAN (10); 5. 31 Jac Nickles, Harrod, OH (4); 6. 13 Van Gurley Jr., Valparaiso, IN (11); 7. 10m Morgan Turpen-Havener, Gallatin, TN (3); 8. 6 Ryan Coniam, Burlington, ON CAN (6); 9. 16 Ryan Ruhl, Coldwater, MI (8); 10. 48 Coen McDaniel, Gaffney, SC (13); 11. 71h Max Stambaugh, Lima, OH (12); 12. 20i Kelsey Ivy, Fremont, OH (7); 13. 9 Tyler Blankenship, Bakersfield, CA (18); 14. 24 Kobe Allison, Lima, OH (14); 15. 23m Lance Moss, Cherryville, NC (15); 16. 87xs Skyler Evans, Scotland, ON CAN (17); 17. 22 Aaron Shaffer, Tekonsha, MI (23); 18. 12 Corbin Gurley, Hebron, IN (22); 19. 00 P.J. Reutimann, Zephyrhills, FL (19); 20. 19w Jackson Wellman, Belmont, NC (21); 21. 28 Jeff Willingham, Ripley, MS (20); 22. 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN (16); 23. 94 Hayden Wise, Huntersville, NC (9); 24. 11h Caleb Harmon, Elida, OH DNS.