Education Commissioner Deena Bishop said the false citations were in a draft she used generative AI to create.
Deena Bishop, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, is seen on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. proposed policy on cellphone use in Alaska schoolsThe document did not disclose that AI had been used in its conception. At least some of that AI-generated false information ended up in front of state Board of Education and Early Development members.
However, mistaken references and other vestiges of what’s known as “AI hallucination” exist in the corrected document later distributed by the department and which Bishop said was voted on by the board. resolution published on the state’s website cited “It’s just very typical that you would see these fake citations that would have a real journal, sometimes even a real personal person, a plausible name, but not correspond to a real thing,” she said. “That’s just like the pattern of citations you would expect of a language model — at least, we’ve seen them do something like that.”
Bishop later said it was a first draft that had been posted in error. She said she used generative AI to draft the documents and corrected the errors. “Their brains are still developing. They’re very malleable. And if you look at the research around smartphones, a lot of it is mirroring that of a substance addiction or any other type of addictive behavior,” she said.
The false citations do point to how AI misinformation can influence state policy, however — especially if high-level state officials use the technology as a drafting shorthand that causes mistakes that end up in public documents and official resolutions.
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