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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kaamil Ahmed

AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns

Two sub-Saharan African male teenagers taking off lifejackets in front of two older white men in uniform
Border Force officers with two young migrants at Dover. Photograph: Anadolu/Anadolu/Getty

Flawed and racialised models that underpin the AI-powered age-detection systems to be introduced by the British government will endanger children, rights groups and children’s charities have warned.

Urging ministers to reverse plans to introduce facial age-estimation technology to screen migrants, critics have warned that black children arriving from conflict zones are at risk of being of thrust into the adult system.

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