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Britain will use AI to assess ages of asylum seekers in a world-first, with other countries likely to follow suit But our investigation, based on a leaked report and our own algorithmic audit, finds the technology is deeply unreliable

Last month, the UK Home Office announced it would use age estimation technology to crack down on small boat arrivals 'posing as children' We can now reveal its own internal report found the tech often assesses minors as adults — and performs worst for nationalities arriving in the largest numbers

Separately, our audit of publicly available data on the age estimation tech of German company Cognitec, which the UK has contracted to provide the tool, finds it misclassified more a third of 16-year-olds as adults, and performed significantly worse on people from African countries

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