New Brunswick's Education Plan Credits Two Sources That Don't Seem to Exist
Several university professors are calling out errors in New Brunswick's new 12-year anglophone education plan, CBC reports, including credit given to two sources that don't appear to exist. Experts believe AI played a role. The province acknowledges it did, but describes that role as limited. That last word is where the argument lives. A source credited in an official document but nowhere to be found isn't a typo; it's a claim with nothing behind it, and a plan meant to guide a dozen years of schooling is precisely where that matters. The province may well be right that the tool's involvement was narrow. The question that hasn't been answered is whether anyone checked what came out of it before the plan went public.
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Two citations that nobody can find, in a government document, is the failure mode people picture when they imagine AI drafting policy. It stops being hypothetical when it's a provincial education plan.
The province doesn't deny it used AI — it disputes the extent. Both things can be true: a limited assist, and sourcing nobody verified. The scale of the tool's role and the reliability of the document are separate questions.
Also worth noting who caught it. Professors reading their own field's literature noticed the phantom credits, not an internal review.