UK watchdog may probe Home Office use of OpenAI tools
A government watchdog is considering an inspection into the Home Office’s use of two AI tools—Asylum Case Summarisation and Asylum Policy Search—built on OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Microsoft Foundry, after researchers and lawmakers raised concerns about accuracy, secrecy and missing public disclosures while the department seeks to clear a backlog of about 100,000 asylum cases.
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AI-assisted summary of the linked sourceThe Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has asked Open Rights Group for documents as it draws up inspection priorities; ORG and other researchers say the Home Office has withheld details about the tools, that summaries contain errors above the reported 9 percent pilot rate, and that some AI systems used in government are absent from the public repository, prompting referrals to the UK data regulator.