Can AI pick suspicious people out of a line-up at customs ?
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Current AI systems can assist border agencies by scanning passport photos against watch-lists, but they still cannot reliably “pick suspicious people out of a line-up” in real time. Some airports deploy facial-recognition gates that match travellers to their e-passports, and neural networks can flag known watch-listed faces with high accuracy when frontal, well-lit images are available. However, matching an arbitrary passenger to an unknown behavioural profile, assessing nervous behaviour in crowded queues, or reliably distinguishing innocent travellers from novel threats remains beyond today’s AI. The technology is therefore used as an investigative aid rather than a definitive arbiter of suspicion.
— Enriched May 12, 2026 · Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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