LLMMedium
Purportedly AI-Assisted Report by Tromsø Officials Allegedly Cited Non-Existent Sources in School Closure Proposal
- Occurred
- Feb 13, 2025
- Published
- Mar 28, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In February 2025, Tromsø Municipality reportedly presented a report proposing the closure of schools and kindergartens. Residents reportedly later discovered the report cited numerous non-existent sources. Officials reportedly admitted using generative AI to help draft the report, leading to fabricated references. The incident reportedly led to public outcry and suspension of the closure plan. It is purportedly Norway's first major public-sector AI scandal.
Developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- Tromsø Municipality
- Stig Tore Johnsen
Harmed parties
- Thomas Nordahl
- General public of Tromsø
- General public of Norway
- Students
- Teachers
- Minors
- Educational communities
- Epistemic integrity
Tags
- False citations
- Hallucination
- Large language model
- Public document
- Document integrity
- Municipal governance
- Norway
- syndicated
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Generative AI hallucinated non-existent sources in a public report, causing controversy and plan suspension.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8