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UK's secret AI integration in immigration system fuels discrimination

By PulseAugur Editorial · [6 sources] ·

A new report from Open Rights Group reveals that Artificial Intelligence is being secretly embedded into the UK's immigration system and border controls. This integration, driven by a repressive approach to migration, reinforces a "hostile environment" and encodes discrimination against vulnerable individuals. The report criticizes successive UK governments for promoting techno-solutionism, reducing complex human issues to technical problems, and calls for urgent transparency, accountability, and regulation. AI

IMPACT This integration of AI into immigration systems risks encoding bias and discrimination, potentially impacting vulnerable populations and raising concerns about transparency and accountability in government.

RANK_REASON The cluster details a new report and investigation into the use of AI in a government policy area (immigration) with significant societal implications.

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UK's secret AI integration in immigration system fuels discrimination

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COVERAGE [6]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    “Driven by a securitised, repressive approach to migration, the UK’s embrace of AI can only reinforce the illusion that immigration is a technological bug at th

    “Driven by a securitised, repressive approach to migration, the UK’s embrace of AI can only reinforce the illusion that immigration is a technological bug at the heart of British society, one that only technologies of discrimination and control can fix." 💬 @ fabiochiusi.bsky.soci…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    AI is being trialled or used in multiple areas to digitalise the hostile environment and create an automated fortress. As our recent investigation into the use

    AI is being trialled or used in multiple areas to digitalise the hostile environment and create an automated fortress. As our recent investigation into the use of ChatGPT in the UK asylum process reveals, there are errors and inaccuracies with its deployment. Read more ➡️ https:/…

    LINKS openrightsgroup.org/…/org-investigation-i…
  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    AI won't fix the UK immigration system. The deeper problem is the ideology that frames migration as a permanent emergency to be solved by algorithms, criminalis

    AI won't fix the UK immigration system. The deeper problem is the ideology that frames migration as a permanent emergency to be solved by algorithms, criminalises migrants and normalises a digital hostile environment. Done without transparency or regulation and run on tech owned …

  4. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    The report criticises successive UK governments for pushing techno-solutionism. This reduces the complex human phenomenon of migration to a technical problem th

    The report criticises successive UK governments for pushing techno-solutionism. This reduces the complex human phenomenon of migration to a technical problem that can be fixed. Under the current administration, the solution appears to be total cybernetic control of migrants deeme…

  5. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    The report is a wake up call. AI is renowned for bias and disproportionately harming the most vulnerable. Discrimination is being encoded into the UK immigratio

    The report is a wake up call. AI is renowned for bias and disproportionately harming the most vulnerable. Discrimination is being encoded into the UK immigration system. All while government officials routinely invoke ‘national security’ to stonewall FOI requests and hide what's …

  6. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    NEW REPORT ⚡ AI has been embedded across the immigration system and at UK borders in near total secrecy. We expose how AI is shaped by and reinforces the hostil

    NEW REPORT ⚡ AI has been embedded across the immigration system and at UK borders in near total secrecy. We expose how AI is shaped by and reinforces the hostile environment behind a smokescreen of 'national security'. We urgently need transparency, accountability and strict regu…

    LINKS openrightsgroup.org/…/new-report-ai-being…

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