AI to be trialled for disputes over asylum seekers' ages in UK

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2025-07-22

London (PA Media/dpa) - Artificial intelligence (AI) technology will be trialled to assess disputed ages of asylum seekers who say they are children, the British Home Office has said. Ministers hope to roll out facial age estimation for migrants arriving by small boats and lorries over 2026, subject to further testing of the technology to go ahead this year. The technology, trained on millions of images of people with confirmed ages, has been dec......

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