‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims
TL;DR
Artificial intelligence has been embedded across the UK Home Office in near-total secrecy, reinforcing the so-called hostile environment for immigration, according to a report by Open Rights Group (ORG). Tasks from detecting potential sham marriages to determining the age of asylum seekers, border surveillance and checking the contents of phones belonging to new arrivals now involve the technology, the report says.
Nauti's Take
AI can help agencies process asylum cases faster, which is a real advantage for overloaded offices. The problem is secrecy: if nobody knows which systems help decide on age or marriages, errors are hard to challenge.
For Europe it is a case study in why the EU AI Act classes such uses as high risk.
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