英国高等法院法官在2024年7月14日的裁决中指控内政部在审查一名摩洛哥女性的庇护申请时，引用了不存在的文件作为拒绝依据[1]。该女性声称丈夫威胁其生命安全，但内政部的拒绝决定却建立在虚假信息之上。法官表示："It appears that no such CPIN has ever existed."[1]
法官认为内政部的拒绝信"bears hallmarks consistent with the use of artificial intelligence"[1]，并指出AI"幻觉"现象可能导致了对不存在文件的引用[1]。摩洛哥自2017年以来未发布过该类公开文件[1]。法官将依赖这类不存在的文件与"relying on bogus evidence"相提并论[1]，认为这构成程序违规。内政部提供的内部文件显示，摩洛哥2018年批准了40,000例儿童婚姻，占当年总婚姻数的五分之一[1]。
A UK High Court judge has suggested that the Home Office relied on information that appears to have been hallucinated by artificial intelligence when refusing an asylum application from a Moroccan woman fleeing domestic abuse.[1]
In a ruling dated July 14, 2024, the judge stated that the Home Office's refusal letter "bears hallmarks consistent with the use of artificial intelligence" and noted that the decision cited a Country Policy and Information Note (CPIN) on Morocco that "appears that no such CPIN has ever existed."[1] The judge warned that AI "hallucination" may have led officials to reference a non-existent document, describing reliance on such fabricated evidence as "analogous to relying on bogus evidence."[1] Morocco has not issued this type of public policy file since 2017, according to the judgment.[1]
The woman's asylum claim was based on threats to her life from her husband.[1] Internal Home Office documents cited in the case indicated that Morocco recorded 40,000 child marriages in 2018, representing one-fifth of all marriages that year.[1] The judge determined that the Home Office's decision-making process constituted a procedural violation.