UK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-bot
UK Home Office speeds up visa and refugee processing with Copilot AI reject-a-bot
Under years of pressure from the right-wing press, the previous and current UK governments have required the Home Office to reduce immigration numbers by any means possible — whether it makes sense…
Under years of pressure from the right-wing press, the previous and current UK governments have required the Home Office to reduce immigration numbers by any means possible — whether it makes sense or not.
But visa and asylum applications keep coming. What to do about the backlog? Let’s clear it with an AI-powered black box! [Guardian]
An official can either write a detailed explanation for a decision — or they can press a button to accept the AI’s verdict. Guess which one they overwhelmingly pick? [Privacy International]
It turns out the Home Office is just running these decisions about people’s lives through Microsoft Copilot, running a version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT — hallucinations and all. [Public Technology]
The Home Office scrapped a previous machine-learning visa review tool in 2020 after it was caught being insanely racist. That tool had been in place since 2015. [Guardian, 2020]
I wish we could return to the days before the latest conservative government won power. No one talked about immigration it was great.
If we just built damn homes immigration wouldn't be a problem, but let's not do that let's just deport brown people, I'm sure that will help.
Man made horrors. They’re using autocorrect to deport migrants.