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UK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAI
Alongside its big public push for AI investments, the U.K. government is also playing virtual card to catapult itself into the 21st century. Today it
Today it announced plans to launch a secure digital wallet to manage government-issued credentials, alongside a chatbot — built in collaboration with OpenAI — to interact with the main GOV.UK portal. It was only a year ago that the U.K. took a leading role only a year ago in a wider global conversation about AI safety: how the new wave of services being built by companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and many others will impact jobs, user privacy and data protection, copyright, and how AI might get misused for nefarious purposes such as to create misinformation, in aid of malicious hacking, and more. “The technology will make use of security features that are built into modern smart phones, including facial recognition checks similar to those used when people pay using a digital bank card,” it said.
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