Description: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly used an AI-assisted résumé screening tool during a 2025 hiring surge that misclassified some applicants as having law-enforcement experience. As a result, certain recruits without policing backgrounds were allegedly routed into a shortened training pathway. ICE reportedly identified the error, reviewed résumés manually, and reassigned affected recruits for additional training.
Editor Notes: Timeline notes: Reporting on this incident suggests it occurred sometime in mid-fall 2025. Outlets began reporting on it on 01/14/2026, which is the date this incident ID takes.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown AI-assisted résumé screening developers and Generative AI developers developed an AI system deployed by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which harmed ICE recruits without law-enforcement experience and Members of the public subject to ICE enforcement.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Unknown AI-assisted résumé screening technology and Automated applicant classification tool (ICE recruitment)
Incident Stats
Risk Subdomain
A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
Risk Domain
The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
- AI system safety, failures, and limitations
Entity
Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
AI
Timing
The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
Post-deployment
Intent
Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
Unintentional
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
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As Immigration and Customs Enforcement was racing to add 10,000 new officers to its force, an artificial intelligence error in how their applications were processed sent many new recruits into field offices without proper training, accordin…
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An artificial intelligence error allowed many recently recruited Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to be sent straight to field offices without proper training, according to a report.
ICE used an AI tool to scan resumes and mista…
Variants
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