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Purportedly AI-Assisted Citation Errors Allegedly Found in Newfoundland and Labrador's 2025 Health Workforce Report by Deloitte

May 29, 2025

A Deloitte-authored Health Human Resources Plan for Newfoundland and Labrador, released in May 2025, has been called into question due to several questionable or non-existent research citations. According to The Independent, some of the named researchers have denied authoring the referenced papers. Deloitte confirmed that AI was used selectively for citation work and is now revising the report. This incident underscores the need for trustworthy AI practices and highlights the importance of HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM (Govern) in ensuring safe and secure AI usage in research.

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Alleged deployer
deloitte
Alleged developer
openai
Alleged 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

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1286

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