The UK has turned to AI to determine the age of asylum seekers, and other countries are likely to follow suit. Our investigation finds the technology is deeply unreliable.
How We Analyzed AI Used to Guess Asylum Seekers’ Ages
Using a leaked report and NIST data to audit facial age estimation AI for efficacy and bias.
The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
More than 60 groups tell Home Office to stop using racist and faulty AI facial age estimation tech on asylum-seeking children
This tech could see vulnerable children seeking asylum in the UK facing a serious threat to their safety at the hands of the UK government.
AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns
‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network
Home Office knew AI age checks for migrants were flawed – but rolled it out anyway
Exclusive: Government advisers describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ – and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult
First-ever Home Office data reveals hundreds of child refugees wrongly treated as adults, despite expert warnings | Helen Bamber
After years of campaigning, the Home Office has for the first time published its own data confirming that hundreds of child refugees arriving in UK alone are being wrongly treated as adults, with devastating consequences. These children are routinely placed in adult accommodation, immigration detention and even adult prisons.
AI Comes for Academics. Can We Rely on It?
By now, the fact that artificial intelligence can hallucinate is, I hope, well known. There are countless examples of platforms like ChatGPT giving the wrong answer to a straightforward question or
Cory Doctorow: Hell is other people – so billionaires are using AI to replace them
The tech elite are pouring billions into dispensing with inconvenient humans. Now governments want the same trick to wish away the migrants their economies desperately need, writes the author and Nerve columnist
Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants
Conducted over a month, the study saw the BBC test four prominent, publicly available AI assistants
AI Age Checks Are Here—And They’re Not Fair To Everyone
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AI Has Ruined the Job Market
Maybe flawed people were better than brute algorithms.
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten […]
A red pixel in the snow: How AI solved the mystery of a missing mountaineer
Scouring remote areas for missing walkers and climbers can take rescuers weeks and sometimes months. AI can do the job in a matter of hours in some cases – and potentially save lives.
Top AI Security Incidents of 2025 Revealed | Adversa AI
Discover how AI systems are being hacked in the wild — from prompt injection to agent abuse — with real breaches, lessons, and defenses in Adversa AI’s 2025 report.
Facial age estimation: Using AI to support initial age decisions (A guide) (accessible)
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Meeting where AI eyes can't follow
I applied to the Community Privacy Residency, and the past projects reminded me of a cryptographic exploration I come back to every once in a while, just for...
