{"id":145478,"date":"2025-09-15T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145478\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:14:09","slug":"despite-fictitious-sources-artificial-intelligence-had-no-part-in-crafting-education-accord-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/145478\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Fictitious Sources, Artificial Intelligence Had No Part in Crafting Education Accord, says Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bernie-davis-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Despite Fictitious Sources, Artificial Intelligence Had No Part in Crafting Education Accord, says Minister\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bernard Davis speaking with reporters (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Minister Bernard Davis is dismissing suspicion that artificial intelligence was used to generate any of the final report on the 10-year Education Accord.<\/p>\n<p>CBC reported on Friday that <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2025\/09\/12\/former-advisor-on-education-accord-dismayed-by-fake-citations-in-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at least 15 sources cited in the document are fake and never existed<\/a>, which was later confirmed by government.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with reporters Friday afternoon, Davis said he didn\u2019t yet know how the \u201cerrors\u201d occurred, but insisted AI didn\u2019t play a part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not. It\u2019s preposterous to even think that someone would type in: Give us an education accord of 118 pages with 450 citations, to assume that A.I. is going to generate a document of that nature,\u201d he said. \u201cNo, no. This is generated out of the hearts and minds of individuals that have been arguing and fighting for improvements in the education system for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/education-accord.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-279588\" class=\"size-full wp-image-279588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/education-accord.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-279588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Education Accord released in late August (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Davis said he expected the \u201cerrors\u201d to be rectified by end of day on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But that fell far short of the explanation Opposition MHAs were hoping for, as they listened in, and followed Davis to the microphones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pc-mha-topsail-paradise-paul-dinn-education-critic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-259685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-259685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pc-mha-topsail-paradise-paul-dinn-education-critic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-259685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Dinn (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Tories\u2019 Paul Dinn fears the fake references may have led to fake conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt could be 15 citations but they might play a bigger part in the body of the report,\u201d he said. \u201cSo let\u2019s find out what\u2019s being corrected here \u2014 if it\u2019s just taking the citations out, or actually going through the report and finding where they were referenced, because right now there is an issue around credibility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Bernard Davis speaking with reporters (VOCM News) Minister Bernard Davis is dismissing suspicion that artificial intelligence was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-145478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}