{"id":542948,"date":"2026-07-25T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/542948\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:44:09","slug":"canadian-politician-reads-ai-chatbot-prompt-aloud-in-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/542948\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian politician reads AI chatbot prompt aloud in legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Canadian politician has been caught reading an AI chatbot prompt aloud during a speech to his province’s legislature, after apparently failing to notice it had been left in his notes.<\/p>\n

Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, was addressing a matter involving the Office of the New Brunswick Advocate last month.<\/p>\n

“Public confidence in the office of an advocate matters,” Oliver said, before the digression,.<\/p>\n

“Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points,” he added.<\/p>\n

Footage of the moment was posted to the New Brunswick subreddit this week, quickly drawing attention from users unimpressed by the mix-up.<\/p>\n

Commenters compared the error to professional standards expected of lawyers, and some called for Oliver to resign.<\/p>\n

New Zealand’s own Parliament is grappling with how AI should be used in official submissions, though not because of any similar mishap. <\/p>\n

Clerk of the House David Wilson recently told 1News<\/a> there was nothing wrong with people using AI to help refine their written submissions to Parliament, provided the views expressed remained genuinely their own. <\/p>\n

He said the concern was less about the tool and more about whether it was producing someone’s own thinking, rather than the AI’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Canadian politician has been caught reading an AI chatbot prompt aloud during a speech to his province’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,64,69,145],"class_list":["post-542948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-north-america","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}