{
  "id": 14117,
  "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/29/uk-immigration-ai-age-facial-recognition-child-refugees-adults-bias",
  "title": "AI tool will lead to more child refugees being treated as adults, charity warns",
  "summary": "‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network Flawed and racialised models that underpin the AI-powered age-detection systems to be introduced by the British government will endanger children, rights groups and children’s charities have warned. Urging ministers to reverse plans to introduce facial age-estimation technology to screen migrants, critics have warned that black children arr",
  "authors": "Kaamil Ahmed",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "bias-fairness,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "uk",
  "published_at": "2026-07-29T04:00:22.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-29T05:10:12.205Z",
  "source_slug": "guardian-ai",
  "source_name": "The Guardian",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theguardian.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14117",
  "original_url": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jul/29/uk-immigration-ai-age-facial-recognition-child-refugees-adults-bias",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}