Just wrote this for the @theguardian.com about the ongoing war between Reform and Restore and the increasing racialisation of our politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In November 2023, police discovered the decayed corpse of Tracey Turnell in Walthamstow Market.
She had no phone, job, passport, friends or lovers. There wasn’t a single photo of her.
It was as if, in her far too public death, she entered the public record for the first time. Who was she?
If I’m understanding the Home Office’s trial age assessment tech, it gets people’s ages wrong by an *average* of 2.5-3 years, is inaccurate for the most crucial cohort (teenagers) and is worse in assessing women/girls and non-white people (umm…) but they’re going for it anyway, because computer
The Home Office has today announced it will use AI to ‘clamp down on fake age claims at the border and increase removals’
In the same breath it admits this AI tool has an error margin of at least 2.5 years for teenagers, and higher rates of error for females + some ethnicities
What could go wrong?
Using an AI tool that you admit is inaccurate from the already biased standpoint of aiming to assess more asylum seekers to be adults, and thus deportable, doesn't feel sensible www.gov.uk/government/p...
After the conviction of Henry Nowak’s killer, the right is embracing racialised language. This tragedy is now just part of a political tussle, says Joe Mulhall of Hope Not Hate
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A decayed corpse was found being wheeled through the centre of Walthamstow. Who was she? And who is to blame for her death?
