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‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims

Artificial intelligence has been embedded in Home Office operations with near-total secrecy, from assessing asylum seekers’ ages to border surveillance, reinforcing the so-called hostile environment for immigration, according to Open Rights Group research.

SourceThe Guardian AIAuthor: Diane Taylor
‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims
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  • AI is used for tasks including detecting suspected sham marriages, determining asylum seekers’ ages and checking the phones of new arrivals
  • Open Rights Group says the technology has been deployed with almost no transparency
  • The report argues that AI intensifies the UK immigration system’s so-called hostile environment

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