TECHNOLOGYTHE GUARDIAN WORLD
AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns
The UK Home Office's facial-recognition AI tool, criticized for overestimating children's ages due to racial bias, may result in child refugees being housed with adults, according to the Human Rights Network. The charity warns that flawed, racialized models in the age-detection system endanger children, particularly black children from conflict zones.
Mentioned
Related Signal
Adjacent reporting
- AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns
- Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers
- Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers
- AI facial recognition will be used to spot adult migrants posing as children to 'game the system' as human rights campaigners moan plan should be scrapped
- Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate
- AI to be used to check age of asylum seekers posing as children