this is what i mean when i say ai is a rhetorical technology.
functionally this is a tool for *justifying deportation*, not a tool for assessing age.
when someone is pitching an ai product, don't ask them what it's supposed to do. ask yourself what it's supposed to justify
Anthony Moser
"an audit by Lighthouse Reports of public data on the government’s chosen AI provider shows that its tech misclassified more than a third of 16-year-olds as adults and, in some tests, was shown to give the wrong assessment in 70 per cent of cases" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Exclusive: Government advisors describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ — and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult
