Artificial Intelligence to Be Trialled for Disputes over Asylum Seekers’ Ages

Controversial AI technology will assess disputed ages of UK Asylum seekers

New system could be problematic, a watchdog says, especially where a child is denied rights and protections

UK to use facial recognition AI to stop adult migrants posing as children

The government plans to use facial recognition technology to verify the age of migrants that arrive in the UK.

Home Office to trial AI to check ages of asylum seekers

Artificial intelligence technology will be trialled to assess disputed ages of asylum seekers who say they are children, the Home Office has said

Artificial intelligence to be trialled for disputes over asylum seekers’ ages

Ministers hope to roll out facial age estimation for migrants arriving by small boats and lorries over 2026 after trialling of the technology.

Government to test using AI facial age estimation in asylum seeker age assessments

The government is to test using artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate the age of unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people where this is disputed. Should the trial, due to start later this year, prove successful, facial age estimation technology could be incorporated into age assessments of asylum seekers from next year, said border security and asylum minister Angela Eagle, in a ministerial statement today. The technology, which is used by s…

Artificial intelligence to be trialled for disputes over asylum seekers’ ages - Rother Radio

Artificial intelligence technology will be trialled to assess disputed ages of asylum seekers who say they are children, the Home Office has said. Ministers hope to roll out facial age estimation for migrants arriving by small boats and lorries over 2026, subject to further testing of the technology to go ahead this year. The technology, trained on millions of images of people with confirmed ages, has been decided as the “most cost-effective opt…