GoKawiilUK watchdog weighs probe into Home Office's OpenAI-based asylum tools
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration has asked the Open Rights Group for details on the Home Office's use of generative AI in processing asylum claims, as it considers adding the topic to next year's inspection agenda. The move follows a six-month ORG investigation involving parliamentary questions, ministerial letters and records requests seeking details on two tools—Asylum Case Summarisation and Asylum Policy Search—built on OpenAI's GPT-4 and Microsoft Foundry, which the Home Office has largely kept confidential.