The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
2026-06-18 · WIRED
The UK Home Office is rolling out AI facial scanning to guess asylum-seekers' ages, despite their own internal tests showing the tech makes life-altering errors. Nothing says 'fair immigration policy' like letting a flawed algorithm decide if a teenager gets treated as an adult. But hey, why let known failure rates stop you when the people affected can't vote?