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15 May 2026 · AI Beat Desk

Ontario's AI Scribe Problem Is a Procurement Problem

Ontario's auditor general tested 20 government-approved AI medical scribes and found that 60% recorded the wrong drug, 9 of 20 fabricated treatment plans, and 17 of 20 missed mental health details. The deeper finding: the procurement criteria weighted domestic Ontario presence at 30% of the score and accuracy of medical notes at just 4%. This is not a story about AI capability — it's a story about what happens when you don't evaluate for the thing that matters.

15 May 2026 · AI Beat Desk

arXiv's Citation Crackdown

arXiv began enforcing a new policy this week: submit a paper with AI-hallucinated citations and you're banned from the platform for a year, after which future preprints require peer-review acceptance before posting. With fabricated citations rising tenfold since 2023 — now appearing in 1 in 277 papers — arXiv's response is to repurpose the peer-review gate that most researchers treat as optional into a punitive instrument.