{"id":671474,"date":"2026-05-15T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:03:09","slug":"ontarios-ag-finds-shortfalls-in-provincial-ai-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671474\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario\u2019s AG Finds Shortfalls in Provincial AI Strategy"},"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\/2026\/05\/ontario-auditor-general-shelley-spence.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Ontario's AG Finds Shortfalls in Provincial AI Strategy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ontario Auditor General, Shelley Spence (via the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario)<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auditor.on.ca\/en\/content\/specialreports\/specialreports\/en26\/2026_AI_EN.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report by the Auditor General of Ontario<\/a> on the use of Artificial Intelligence has found the province\u2019s AI strategy lacking in \u201cmany key components.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The audit found that Ontario Public Serve staff were accessing \u201cunsafe and unsecured AI websites,\u201d creating risks of potential unauthorized data exposure. <\/p>\n<p>Only 3 per cent of public service staff in Ontario completed training on the responsible use of AI, which was not mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario AG Shelley Spence also found that AI Scribe used to take notes for doctors on patients were not being adequately evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>She cited AI \u201challucinations\u201d \u2013 whereby information was made up or treatment suggestions were made that were not provided by the doctor \u2013 in addition to incorrect, and incomplete information. <\/p>\n<p>Spence found that 11 of the 20 approved companies offering AI services to the Ontario government did not submit any third-party audit reports, and that a comprehensive evaluation of vendors was not conducted to ensure that their AI Scribe systems mitigated the risk of bias. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Ontario Auditor General, Shelley Spence (via the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario) A report by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-671474","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\/671474","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=671474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}