Comment on UK Plans AI Experiment on Children Seeking Asylum

AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Companies that tested their technology in a handful of supermarkets, pubs, and on websites set them to predict whether a person looks under 25, not 18, allowing a wide error margin for algorithms that struggle to distinguish a 17-year-old from a 19-year-old.

AI face scans were never designed for children seeking asylum, and risk producing disastrous, life-changing errors. Algorithms identify patterns in the distance between nostrils and the texture of skin; they cannot account for children who have aged prematurely from trauma and violence. They cannot grasp how malnutrition, dehydration, sleep deprivation, and exposure to salt water during a dangerous sea crossing might profoundly alter a child’s face.

Goddamn, this is horrible. Imagine leaving shitty AI to determine the fate of this girl :

[‘Psychologically broken,’ 8-year-old Sama loses her hair](www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna168939

As her family ran from shelling at their tent camp in Gaza, Sama shook in fear, screaming that she didn’t want to die. But now she tells her mother, “Mom, I want to die.”

Though she still has both her parents and all her limbs, Sama Tabeel has lost almost all of her hair due to the unbearable stress of the war. “I am terrified of the shelling,” she tells NBC News from a camp in Khan Younis. She covers her bald head with a pink bandana she rarely takes off and passes time by playing with a doll whose hair she can braid, while longing for her own.

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