Asylum claim rejected by French authorities using Google Bard
An Afghan refugee in Tehran had her asylum application rejected by an official at France's Ministry of the Interior using Google Bard, resulting in a government investigation. According to Le Canard Enchaîné , the official told an adminstrative tribunal in Nantes that he had used Google Bard (now called Gemini) to process the refugee's asylum claim. The bot informed him on the basis of the information shared with it that the girl was not eligible for family reunification as she was three months too old. Le Canard Enchaîné later repeated the exercise based on the official's testimony, only to find it approved the claim. The incident raised questions about the suitability of government officials using public tools to assess sensitive asylum claims, and about the accuracy and robustness of Google Bard. System 🤖 Gemini Operator: French Office for Immigration and Integration Developer: Alphabet/Google Country: France Sector: Govt - immigration Purpose: Process asylum claims Technology: Chatbot; NLP/text analysis; Neural network; Deep learning; Machine learning; Reinforcement learning Issue: Accuracy/reliability
- Date it happened
- 2023-09-01
- Organisation involved
- French Office for Immigration and Integration
- Product, system or model
- Gemini
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