Microsoft Bing image AI solves the refugee age problem

There was a story from here in Canada a while back 29 year old Sudanese caught posing as a 17 year old and attending high school in Canada. I went to high school in Canada and in general varsity basketball, football and hockey players are quite popular among the high school girls, just saying.

It's a known issue. Refugees often have missing or unreliable identity documentation. Also by claiming to be the magic number of 17, they are considered children, or unaccompanied minor. As children they have special and additional services and protections in their host countries in North America and western Europe. As in the case of Jonathan Nicola, often these claims of being 17 are shall we say wildly inaccurate.

Fish have otoliths. Trees have rings. But it was thought there was no reliable way to determine someone's age. Until now, Microsoft Bing AI to the rescue to solve this "stated age" problem.

Check out the Bing site https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/face/, scroll down to the Face detection section. Here is the image with some highlighted key areas

Amazingly, Bing is able to determine the age, 23.4 in this case, down to the tenth of the year. So this solves the refugee age problem. Load the AI machine learning with a decent data set of known age by ethnic group and country of origin. Run the refugee child claimant through Bing AI. If Bing comes in substantially different, over say, 19, that would be considered reasonable evidence that the claimant is not providing an accurate age. Host country officials vetting the application take appropriate action.