Dossier
age-detection systems
Coverage of age-detection systems in the Nexus archive.
- 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.