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959 Canada's Immigration Rejected Applicant Based On AI-Invented Job Duties

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/25/2026 18:00 EDT

Canada's Immigration Rejected Applicant Based On AI-Invented Job Duties

New submitter haroldbasset writes: Canada's Immigration Department rejected an applicant because the duties of her current job did not match the Canadian work experience she had claimed, but the Department's AI assistant had invented that work experience. She has been working in Canada as a health scientist -- she has a Ph.D. in the immunology of aging -- but the AI genius instead described her as "wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting." "

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