UK inspector may probe Home Office use of OpenAI‑powered asylum tools
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) is considering an investigation into the UK Home Office’s use of two generative-AI tools—Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) and Asylum Policy Search (APS)—which ORG says are built on OpenAI’s 2023 GPT-4 and Microsoft Foundry and have shown higher error rates and limited transparency than the government’s published pilot results. The tools are used to speed asylum case reviews, but researchers, MPs and legal groups warn of factual errors, cultural bias and insufficient quality control in high-stakes decisions.