Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers
A coalition of over 100 UK charities and refugee organizations has voiced strong opposition to the Home Office's plan to use AI for estimating the age of young asylum seekers. They argue that the technology is unreliable and could lead to more children being wrongly classified as adults, potentially resulting in placement in adult prisons or detention centers. The organizations emphasize that factors like trauma and malnutrition can significantly affect a person's appearance, making AI assessment complex and potentially biased, and advocate for AI to be used only in an advisory capacity, not as a definitive decision-making tool. AI
IMPACT Raises concerns about the reliability and ethical implications of using AI for age assessment in immigration policy, potentially impacting vulnerable individuals.