Asylum procedures in Austria often take years. Could artificial intelligence make the process more efficient and possibly even fairer? Political scientist Laura Jung is skeptical. Although the machine is already being used elsewhere to determine origin, it is still extremely error-prone and its decision-making is highly non-transparent. Jung is now working with the support of the Styrian Future Fund on an assessment of the procedure planned here. Read more on her research here: Grenzwertig (e-publikation.de)
Laura Jung is working as a postdoc in the University of Graz project Elastic Borders, which focuses on the EU's external borders. When biometric data is centrally available, landlocked states leave entry controls to other countries, or reception camps are set up outside the Union, this makes it clear how much the border regime is in flux. State lines are not rigid and static. Analogous to physical properties, they even appear elastic. This is the starting point for the project funded by the Swiss NOMIS Foundation.