AI will help make ‘life-or-death’ calls in rammed UK asylum system

Britain is hoping to clear a record backlog of asylum claims with artificial intelligence (AI), outsourcing life-and-death decisions to dehumanising technology, rights groups say. As global displacement soars, Britain said it would deploy AI to speed asylum decisions, arming caseworkers with country-specific advice and summaries of key interviews.

It will also introduce new targets to streamline parts of the overstretched and badly backlogged decision-making process.

Migrant charities and digital rights groups say the use of automation could endanger…