The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed
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英国政府计划自明年起，在边境采用面部年龄估测技术，通过AI扫描面部判断寻求庇护者的年龄。这是该技术首次被用于此类场景。然而，WIRED与Lighthouse Reports联合调查获取的内部报告显示，该技术系统频繁将儿童误判为成人，且存在严重偏见问题，直接影响2025年接受年龄评估的最大移民群体。若儿童被错误归类为成人，将失去部分法律保护并被安置在成人拘留中
Age verification is consuming the Internet. From social media bans in Australia to porn restrictions in half of US states, for many having to prove their age to access websites is becoming an everyday requirement. But one of the key technologies underpinning many of these age checks is about to seep into the offline world—with potentially life-changing consequences for people having their age predicted by AI.
Starting next year, the British government is planning to introduce facial age estimation—where AI scans your face and suggests how old you are—to help determine the age of asylum seekers arriving at the United Kingdom’s border. The move is believed to be the first time that a so-called facial age estimation (FAE) system has been used in this way. Many asylum seekers arriving in the UK will not have documents proving their age, and if children are incorrectly classed as adults, they can be stripped of some legal protections and placed in adult-only detention centers.
An investigation by WIRED and Lighthouse Reports, in collaboration with The Independent, has obtained an internal UK government report detailing its tests of FAE technologies. It shows how the systems regularly mistake children for adults and appear to contain serious bias problems, which directly impact the largest group of migrants subject to age assessments in 2025, according to data from the Home Office. The investigation raises questions about the effectiveness of the technology and whether it should be deployed in such high-stakes scenarios.
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