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As a civil servant, in my own personal view, I absolutely agree.

Absolutely. Home office understaffed and those dealing with immigration woefully undertrained and recruited in haste. Seems managers overworked and some equally inept. Senior managers beyond redemption.

Generative AI LLMs make stuff up - it’s how they function. Literally.Use of such AI should be banned in govt wherever truth is important. Ie in all govt work. Under Starmer the UK govt strangely went 100% Kool Aid on AI. Will Burnham wake up? @ajpendleton.bsky.social @davidyelland.bsky.social

Someone chose to use an AI to avoid doing their job, and then (lots of people) chose not to check its output. Also, had they a good reason to refuse asylum, they wouldn't have needed to use AI. (This assumes that the AI was not used intentionally to generate bogus justifications for their actions).

It's not just civil servants, the whole system is meant to do this. It is Home Office policy not to help the vulnerable but to get rid of them. Since well before Windrush.

Illegally expelling people is what the home office is for, so I can see why they resorted to perjury

Having watched a home office barrister desperately try to send a traumatised family back into danger… nothing surprises me. But the west wing quote made me smile. Thank you. Jed Bartlet for prime minister please!

For criminal charges, contempt of court should be an absolute lock-in.

There is a headlong rush into using AI across govt departments, encouraged by those selling AI products, enthusiastically accepted by departments that are under pressure to reduce headcount with claims more can be done with less people by using AI. And these are the sorts of implications.