Description: South Africa's Department of Home Affairs reportedly appended apparent AI-generated fictitious references to its Cabinet-approved Revised White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection. The department said the references were not cited in the body, withdrew the standalone list, suspended two senior officials, and commissioned an independent review of policy documents produced since November 2022. It maintained that the paper's substantive policy positions were unaffected.
Editor Notes: See also: Incident 1467: South Africa Draft National AI Policy Reportedly Included Fictitious References Believed to Be AI Hallucinations.
Entités
Voir toutes les entitésAlleged: Large language model developers et Generative AI developers developed an AI system deployed by South African Department of Home Affairs , Government of South Africa et Government agencies, which harmed General public of South Africa , General public , Epistemic integrity et Citizenship, immigration, and refugee policy stakeholders.
Systèmes d'IA présumés impliqués: Large language models et Generative AI systems
Statistiques d'incidents
ID
1548
Nombre de rapports
1
Date de l'incident
2026-04-30
Editeurs
Daniel Atherton
Rapports d'incidents
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The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is the latest arm of government to have discovered the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in one of its policy papers.
The department on Thursday announced the suspension of two officials associated wit…
Variantes
Une "Variante" est un incident de l'IA similaire à un cas connu—il a les mêmes causes, les mêmes dommages et le même système intelligent. Plutôt que de l'énumérer séparément, nous l'incluons sous le premier incident signalé. Contrairement aux autres incidents, les variantes n'ont pas besoin d'avoir été signalées en dehors de la base de données des incidents. En savoir plus sur le document de recherche.
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