Rights groups brand Home Office's AI age guesser for asylum-seekers as biased and inaccurate
Campaigners say tech is unable to reliably distinguish between kids and adults at the boundary where use is planned
More than 60 rights groups have told the UK government to scrap plans to use AI-powered facial age estimation on asylum-seeking children, warning the technology is biased, inaccurate, and potentially unlawful.
In an open letter sent to border security and asylum minister Alex Norris, 62 organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Liberty, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Foxglove, and the Open Rights Group, called on the Home Office to halt deployment of facial age estimation (FAE) technology, currently slated for rollout from 2027.
The intervention comes after the Home Office unveiled plans to use AI-powered facial age estimation to help immigration officers decide whether someone claiming to be a child is likely to be over or under 18. Ministers insist the technology will support, rather than replace, human decision-making.
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