Michael Veale on Nostr: As the Home Office runs a hackathon to look for ‘AI’ transcription/translation ...

As the Home Office runs a hackathon to look for ‘AI’ transcription/translation tools to reduce the #asylum backlog without a step change in investment (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/government-hackathon-to-search-for-ways-to-use-ai-to-cut-asylum-backlog), npub1hks456grvfqxprh4cq5zfwwnudvpnywqpcrvu086wyny72qr95kq3kps44 (npub1hks…ps44) reports that… surprise surprise, machine translation is jeopardising asylum claims among Afghans in the US! https://restofworld.org/2023/ai-translation-errors-afghan-refugees-asylum/