The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed

*Executive summary:* The article reports that the UK Home Office plans to deploy AI face age estimation (FAE) at the border to assist age assessments of migrants, but internal testing and a leaked report show substantial accuracy problems and demographic biases (notably poorer performance on Sub‑Saharan African faces and females), raising concerns about real‑world reliability and fairness as rollout is delayed until 2027.