{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T07:25:49.030Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"student-suspension","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-lulea-university-disciplinary-board-suspends-two-students-over-unauthorised-ai-use-with-invented-references","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Disciplinnämnden vid Luleå tekniska universitet har fattat beslut i sex disciplinärenden.'; 'Fem studenter stängs av från utbildningsverksamheten i sex veckor.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The disciplinary board of Luleå University of Technology decided six disciplinary cases, suspending five students from teaching for six weeks and giving a sixth a warning.","causal_attribution":"The newspaper's report of the board's decisions; the decisions were not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I två fall rör det sig om otillåten AI-användning där inlämnade arbeten innehöll påhittade källhänvisningar, bland annat till en bok som inte existerar.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Two of the cases concerned unauthorised AI use in which the submitted work contained invented source references, including one to a book that does not exist.","causal_attribution":"The newspaper's account of the board's grounds; the method by which the AI use was established is not described."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Alla avstängningar gäller från den 14 september till 25 oktober 2026.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"All the suspensions run from 14 September to 25 October 2026.","causal_attribution":"As reported by the newspaper."}],"effects":[{"label":"six-week suspension from teaching for two students over unauthorised AI use","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.kuriren.nu/nyheter/lulea/artikel/fem-studenter-avstangs-vid-ltu-efter-fusk-med-ai/rexpg4xl","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"sv","translation_note":"Read in the original Swedish (HTML body and stripped text); the page is marked as not free to access (isAccessibleForFree false), so text beyond the inspected passages may exist. Passages are quoted in Swedish; the English renderings in the record are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"kuriren-ltu-disciplinary-sep-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["education"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used, in which courses and how the board established the AI use.","The date of the board's decisions and whether either student appealed to the administrative court.","What the students said in their defence."],"geography":{"basis":"The decisions were taken by the disciplinary board of Luleå University of Technology in Luleå, Sweden, as the report states. The students' own countries are not stated.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["SE"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete sanction for prohibited AI use: two students were suspended for six weeks after the disciplinary board found unauthorised AI use in work that cited invented sources. The facts rest on one local newspaper's report of the decisions.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Norrbottens-Kuriren reports that two of the disciplinary cases concerned unauthorised AI use in which the submitted work contained invented source references, including one to a non-existent book; the article's headline says AI invented a source ('AI hittade på källa'), and the board suspended the two students for six weeks. The tool is not named and the way the board established the AI use is not described.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Luleå university board suspends two students for six weeks over unauthorised AI use whose submitted work cited invented sources, local paper reports","summary":"The disciplinary board of Luleå University of Technology (LTU) in northern Sweden decided six disciplinary cases and suspended five students from teaching for six weeks, from 14 September to 25 October 2026, Norrbottens-Kuriren reported on 21 September 2026. In two of the cases, according to the newspaper, the matter was unauthorised use of AI in which the submitted work contained invented source references, among them a reference to a book that does not exist. The other suspensions concerned plagiarism of a classmate's lab report and unauthorised notes at an exam; a sixth student received a warning. The report does not name the AI tool, the courses or the students and quotes neither the students nor the university.","incidentDate":"2026-09-14","incidentEndDate":"2026-10-25","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-21","aiSystem":"An unnamed AI tool whose use the disciplinary board treated as unauthorised; the submitted work contained invented source references, including one to a non-existent book, according to Norrbottens-Kuriren","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI writing tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Norrbottens-Kuriren, two students were suspended from teaching for six weeks, from 14 September to 25 October 2026, after the disciplinary board found unauthorised AI use in work that cited invented sources.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":2,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two students: the report says two of the six cases concerned unauthorised AI use; each case concerned one student.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"SE","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.kuriren.nu/nyheter/lulea/artikel/fem-studenter-avstangs-vid-ltu-efter-fusk-med-ai/rexpg4xl","primarySourceLabel":"Norrbottens-Kuriren, 21 September 2026: Five students suspended at LTU for cheating, AI invented a source","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:15:03.052663+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:15:03.052663+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["academic-integrity","invented-references","student-suspension","university","sweden","own-use"]}]}