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UK asylum age-check AI faces backlash from child refugee groups
Key Takeaways
- The UK Home Office has awarded a contract to use AI facial age estimation on asylum seekers with disputed ages.
- More than 100 organizations warned the system could wrongly place children in adult detention settings.
- Advocates say trauma and under-nutrition can make appearance-based age estimation unreliable.
- A consortium report urges the government to use AI only as an advisory tool with safeguards and appeal rights.
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DT Editorial Team··via theguardian.com