UK Plans Flawed AI Face Scans for Asylum Age Checks
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Britain plans to deploy facial age estimation to determine asylum seekers’ ages at the border, but internal Home Office tests show substantial inaccuracies and racial bias, risking minors being misclassified as adults. Critics warn this could harm vulnerable migrants and erode rights, even as the government delays expansion to 2027 and defends the tool as an optional aid for officers.
- The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed WIRED
- EFF Joins 60+ Groups Urging the UK to Halt Face Estimation at the Border Electronic Frontier Foundation
- The UK’s AI experiment on children seeking asylum The Week
- Home Office knew AI age checks for migrant children were flawed – but rolled it out anyway The Independent
- Asylum by Algorithm Lighthouse Reports
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