Artificial intelligence is now being used by the Home Office for a range of immigration-related tasks, including assessing asylum seekers’ ages, monitoring borders, and scrutinizing personal devices, according to new research. The Open Rights Group warns that these AI systems have been integrated into operations with little public oversight, deepening the government’s "hostile environment" approach to immigration policy. The report highlights how technology is now deployed in areas such as identifying suspected fraudulent marriages and analyzing the contents of phones belonging to new arrivals. Critics argue the secrecy surrounding these systems raises concerns about accountability and fairness in decision-making.
Tasks from determining asylum seekers’ ages to border surveillance now involve AI, says Open Rights Group AI has been embedded across the Home Office in near-total secrecy, reinforcing the so-called hostile environment for immigration, according to research.Tasks from the detection of potential sham marriages to determining the age of asylum seekers and checking through the contents of phones of new arrivals now involve use of the technology, according to a report by Open Rights Group (ORG). Continue reading...
