The Use of AI in the UK Asylum System
About this Event
About the event
The Home Office has recently published a summary of its AI pilot to deploy artificial intelligence within the UK asylum system. Officials describe these systems as "aiding tools" that merely support human caseworkers. But emerging research and early legal analysis suggest this framing understates their true impact on the people whose claims and futures hang in the balance.
The pilot covers two tools now entering the asylum process: one that uses AI to summarise applicants' interview transcripts, and another that searches and summarises country policy information used to assess claims. The Home Office's own evaluation found that nearly one in ten AI-generated summaries were so flawed they had to be removed, yet applicants are not told when these tools are used in their cases.
The Open Rights Group has published a policy paper setting out the risks these tools pose to fairness, transparency, and the rights of people seeking asylum, and has worked with a leading legal team to prepare a detailed legal opinion on the use of AI in asylum decision-making.
Hosted by Mr Paul Kohler, Liberal Democrat MP for Wimbledon, this panel brings together senior lawyers and digital rights experts to examine what the evidence really shows: whether automated systems can be reconciled with the right to a fair hearing, how decisions made or shaped by AI can be challenged, and what safeguards are needed before these tools are embedded any further.
Read the parliamentary brief here.
Speakers
Robin Allen KC (Barrister, Cloisters Chambers)
Ahmed Aydeed(Partner, Deighton Pierce Glynn)
Sara Alsherif (Migrant Digital Justice Prog Manager, Open Rights Group)
Chair
Dr Yenn Lee (Digital Sociologist & Deputy Head of Doctoral School, SOAS)
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