Description: Education Scotland, the national education agency, published evidence papers for Scotland's school curriculum review. A University of Edinburgh lecturer identified about 20 references he believed did not exist. The agency corrected errors and disclosed that AI was used to edit the papers. Whether AI introduced any of the disputed references remains unconfirmed.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Large language model developers developed an AI system deployed by Education Scotland , Governments , Government agencies , Government of the United Kingdom and Government of Scotland, which harmed Epistemic integrity , Scottish curriculum review stakeholders , Educational communities , Education policymakers , Educators , Educators in Scotland and Educators in the United Kingdom.
Alleged implicated AI system: Large language models
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1809
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-11-05
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Scotland's schools quango is at the centre of a row over ‘blatant errors’ in official curriculum reports made using artificial intelligence (AI).
Education Scotland produced a series of papers advising on curriculum changes intended to form…
Variants
A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
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