{"id":19513,"date":"2025-07-22T15:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/uk-border-officials-to-use-ai-to-verify-ages-of-child-asylum-seekers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T15:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:37:39","slug":"uk-border-officials-to-use-ai-to-verify-ages-of-child-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/uk-border-officials-to-use-ai-to-verify-ages-of-child-asylum-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"UK border officials to use AI to verify ages of child asylum seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trial of technology comes as official report warns existing system has been failing for at least a decade<\/p>\n<p>Officials are to start using artificial intelligence to help estimate the age of asylum seekers who say they are children.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Eagle, the immigration minister, said on Tuesday the government would test technology that judges a person\u2019s age based on their facial features.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/jul\/22\/uk-border-officials-to-use-ai-to-verify-ages-of-child-asylum-seekers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f1f2e4c146dc133629581aa857c7da6cae6fc713\/0_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5bef2215f9632d8fe5ab001f54807507\" title=\"UK border officials to use AI to verify ages of child asylum seekers\" \/>Trial of technology comes as official report warns existing system has been failing for at least a decade<br \/>\nOfficials are to start using artificial intelligence to help estimate the age of asylum seekers who say they are children.<br \/>\nAngela Eagle, the immigration minister, said on Tuesday the government would test technology that judges a person\u2019s age based on their facial features. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trial of technology comes as official report warns existing system has been failing for at least a decade Officials are to start using artificial intelligence to help estimate the age of asylum seekers who say they are children. Angela Eagle, the immigration minister, said on Tuesday the government would test technology that judges a person\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/uk-border-officials-to-use-ai-to-verify-ages-of-child-asylum-seekers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK border officials to use AI to verify ages of child asylum seekers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}