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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".
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2020-06-20T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2023-04-19T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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