
Virginia Blaser
Retired U.S. diplomat (34-year Foreign Service career, acting ambassador to five countries) and CEO/founder of Blaser Global; co-author of "AI Use Cases for Consular Affairs."
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Oct 6, 2026
AI, Visas and Border Control: Can Artificial Intelligence Decide Who Gets Through
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Virginia BlaserGUEST
The kinds of things that I am already seeing happening, not just in the United States, but in many countries that are trying to figure out how to leverage AI and AI-type technologies in this space cover a wide gamut.

Virginia BlaserGUEST
As Don said, different countries are l- are leveraging it in different ways for different reasons.

Virginia BlaserGUEST
But let's just get to it, which is things like, you know, photo and document quality checks.

Virginia BlaserGUEST
It can be often hard for a human to do at scale, you know, and at a rapid pace.

Virginia BlaserGUEST
And, uh, biometrics, m- matching identities, uh, much faster with AI than trying to do this the analog or manual way.
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So how do you ensure that biases, the, about immigration border data, um, that might be within these large language models, that they then don't influence some of these consular decisions?
