Home Office AI Age Tool Branded Biased for Asylum-Seekers
🟡 Medium | Source: The Register — Security The UK Home Office is using an AI system to estimate the age of asylum-seekers, but rights groups argue the technology is biased and unreliable — particularly at the critical boundary between child and adult classifications. This matters because misclassification could place vulnerable children into adult detention or processing systems, with serious legal and welfare consequences. The controversy raises broader questions about the deployment of AI in high-stakes government decision-making without sufficient transparency or independent validation. ...