Purportedly AI-Assisted Citation Errors Allegedly Found in Newfoundland and Labrador's 2025 Health Workforce Report by Deloitte
Description
A Deloitte-authored Health Human Resources Plan released by Newfoundland and Labrador in May 2025 was later reported by The Independent to contain several inaccurate or apparently non-existent research citations. Researchers named in the disputed citations reportedly denied authoring the referenced papers. Deloitte stated that AI was selectively used to support some citation work and that it is revising the report.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- deloitte
Alleged Developers
- openai
Harmed Parties
- healthcare-policymakers
- government-of-newfoundland-and-labrador
- general-public-of-newfoundland-and-labrador
- general-public-of-canada
- general-public
- epistemic-integrity
- martha-macleod
- gail-tomblin-murphy
- canadian-journal-of-respiratory-therapy
Classification
Risk Domain
MisinformationRisk Subdomain
3.1. False or misleading information
MIT Risk Profile
Source
Related Incidents (Misinformation)
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