WF-2D8HEN
AI translation is jeopardizing Afghan asylum claims
A Pashto-speaking refugee's asylum claim was denied by a US agency for a discrepancy between oral and written recount of an event allegedly due to an error of their automated translation tool which swapped pronouns of her written statement from "I" to "we".
- Date it happened
- 2020-06-20
- Organisation involved
- US Citizenship and Immigration Services
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