BiasMedium
UK Visa Streamline Algorithm Allegedly Discriminated Based on Nationality
- Occurred
- Mar 1, 2015
- Published
- Oct 29, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
UK Home Office's algorithm to assess visa application risks explicitly considered nationality, allegedly caused candidates to face more scrutiny and discrimination.
Developers
- UK Visas and Immigration
- UK Home Office
Deployers
- UK Visas and Immigration
Harmed parties
- UK visa applicants from some countries
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithm explicitly considered nationality causing discrimination, fitting BIAS category with medium severity due to alleged harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8