Human Rights Network
Coverage of Human Rights Network in the Nexus archive.
- AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns
The British government's AI-powered facial age-estimation software, criticized for racial bias, risks overestimating the ages of child refugees, leading to their placement in adult facilities. Human Rights Network and other groups warn this flawed system endangers children, particularly Black children from conflict zones, and urge the government to abandon the plan.
- 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.