LLMMedium
Purportedly AI-Assisted Citation Errors Allegedly Found in Newfoundland and Labrador's 2025 Health Workforce Report by Deloitte
- Occurred
- May 29, 2025
- Published
- May 29, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- Deloitte
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
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI-assisted citation errors in a government report constitute a notable failure with limited immediate harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8