KPMG lodges complaint after AI-generated material was used to implicate them in non-existent scandals

‘The livelihoods of the more than 10,000 people who work at KPMG can be affected when obviously incorrect information is put on the public record – protected by parliamentary privilege – and reported as fact,’ wrote KPMG CEO, Andrew Yates, in a letter. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

A Senate committee has warned artificial intelligence may have seriously undermined its integrity, after consultancy giant KPMG lodged an official complaint about factually inaccurate information receiving parliamentary privilege.

A group of academics has apologised to the big four consultancy firms after their submission to an inquiry contained false allegations of serious wrongdoing, which were collated by an AI tool and not factchecked.