LLMMedium
Alaska Education Department Reportedly Published Policy Featuring Erroneous AI-Generated Citations
- Occurred
- Oct 28, 2024
- Published
- Oct 28, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In October 2024, Alaska’s Education Commissioner Deena Bishop allegedly used generative AI to draft a school cellphone policy, resulting in reportedly fabricated citations of non-existent studies. The document, which did not disclose AI use, was shared with the state Board of Education, and despite reported corrections, AI-generated errors remained in the final resolution.
Developers
- Large language model developers
Deployers
- Deena Bishop
- Alaska Department of Education and Early Development
Harmed parties
- Alaskan students
- Alaskan parents of students
- Alaskan education system
- Alaskan education policymakers
- Alaska Board of Education members
- Epistemic integrity
- Students
- Educational communities
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Generative AI hallucinated citations in official policy document without disclosure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8