Lin Taylor

5 days ago | context.news | Lin Taylor

What’s the context? As governments deploy AI to manage borders, citizens should be wary of this tech too, says researcher. LONDON - As the number of people fleeing war, poverty and climate disasters reach record levels worldwide, governments are increasingly turning to digital fixes to manage migration. In April, Britain said it would use artificial intelligence to speed asylum decisions, arming caseworkers with country-specific advice and automated summaries of key interviews.

2 weeks ago | context.news | Lin Taylor

Afghan women and children wait for their turn to see a doctor at Yaka Dokan health clinic run by nonprofit organization World Vision, in Yaka Dokan village, Herat, Afghanistan, October 23, 2024. REUTERS/Sayed HassibWhat’s the context? From Sudan to Ukraine, key services for women and girls face closure or major disruption.

3 weeks ago | thestar.com.my | Lin Taylor

LONDON: 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.

4 weeks ago | lse.co.uk | Lin Taylor

UK pledges to clear asylum backlog amid record migration *AI could influence human oversight in critical decisions *Governments adopt digital tech to manage borders By Lin TaylorLONDON, May 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - 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.

1 month ago | nst.com.my | Lin Taylor - |Lin Taylor

PROFITEERS have flooded social media with fake news and bogus videos since a powerful earthquake devastated Myanmar last month, exploiting the chaos with clickbait that can reap tens of thousands in ad revenues, digital activists say. Be it sensational images that go viral or fake rescue tales, the schemes prey on the heightened fears and appetite for news that follow any disaster or outbreak of war. "People just have to assume there's a lot of false information that circulates.