{"id":9698,"date":"2021-09-11T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T15:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heronlaw.ca\/heron-law-offices-founder-will-tao-on-predictive-advanced-analytics-used-by-ircc-chinook-and-the-need-for-oversight\/"},"modified":"2021-09-11T08:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T15:41:50","slug":"heron-law-offices-founder-will-tao-on-predictive-advanced-analytics-used-by-ircc-chinook-and-the-need-for-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heronlaw.ca\/zh-hans\/heron-law-offices-founder-will-tao-on-predictive-advanced-analytics-used-by-ircc-chinook-and-the-need-for-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"Heron Law Offices&#8217; Founder Will Tao, on Predictive\/Advanced Analytics used by IRCC, Chinook, and the Need for Oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;Assuming that this AI processing system is still being used only for TRVs and not for any other permits, it must be catching (with the assistance of Chinook&#8217;s key word indicators no less) words such as marriage, the names of rural communities, marital status, perhaps the addresses of unauthorized agents, and businesses that often have been used as a cover for support letters. Within that list there&#8217;s a mix of good local knowledge, but also the very stereotypes that have historically kept families apart and individuals from being able to visit without holding a study permit or work permit.<\/em><\/p><p><em>If we find out, for example, that filtering for complex cases only happens at visa offices with high refusal rates or in the Global South, does that make the system unduly discriminatory?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/heronlaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Artificial-Intelligence.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heronlaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Artificial-Intelligence.jpg 640w, https:\/\/heronlaw.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Artificial-Intelligence-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the September 2021 version of Richard Kurland&#8217;s Lexbase, we have learned more about how IRCC applies Predictive\/Advanced Analytics to Temporary Resident Visa (&#8220;TRV&#8221;) decisions made in India\/China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will analyzes how the engagement of AI in the filtering process can make the refusals outcomes of a moderately complex case equivalent to a manually-extracted complex one and why greater legal and expert oversight is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go check out Will&#8217;s blog post: <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouverimmigrationblog.com\/predictive-advanced-analytics-chinook-oversight\/\">https:\/\/vancouverimmigrationblog.com\/predictive-advanced-analytics-chinook-oversight\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Assuming that this AI processing system is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[441,617,544,556],"class_list":["post-9698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-immigration-law-blog-ch","tag-ai-in-immigration-zh-hans","tag-chinook-zh-hans-2","tag-chinook-canadian-immigration-zh-hans","tag-predictive-advanced-analytics-in-canadian-immigration-zh-hans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heron Law Offices&#039; 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