Lawyers, teachers, and students face consequences when they use AI to do their jobs. What about politicians?

Artificial intelligence makes mistakes all the time: adding extra fingers to generated images of humans or hallucinating data just to please its user. But sometimes, mistakes rest entirely on the humans using it, a Canadian lawmaker has come to find out. In a now viral video, Bill Oliver, a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of New Brunswick, is seen addressing the legislature, but while reading his speech, one line raised eyebrows. “Public confidence in the office of an advocate…