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The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) is considering investigating the Home Office's use of generative AI tools to process asylum applications, and has asked the digital rights organization Open Rights Group to provide more information. The Home Office's Asylum Case Summarisation and Asylum Policy Search tools are built on OpenAI's 2023 GPT-4 and Microsoft Foundry, and began piloting in late 2024. Open Rights Group's six-month investigation found that the proportion of ACS-generated summaries judged unusable was significantly higher than the 9% error rate published in the pilot evaluation, while APS-generated summaries had no quality control; these tools are also not included in the list of algorithmic tools the UK government requires to be disclosed. The investigation is currently at the consideration stage.
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UK border watchdog may investigate Home Office's use of OpenAI tools to process asylum applications
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) is considering investigating the Home Office's use of generative AI tools to process asylum applications and has asked the digital rights organization Open Rights Group for more information. The Home Office's Asylum Case Summarisation and Asylum Policy Search tools are built on OpenAI's 2023 GPT-4 and Microsoft Foundry and began piloting in late 2024. ORG's six-month investigation found that the proportion of ACS-generated summaries judged unusable was significantly higher than the 9% error rate published in the pilot evaluation, while APS-generated summaries have no quality control; these tools are also not included in the list of algorithmic tools that the UK government requires to be disclosed.