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Alongside a huge public push for investment in artificial intelligence, the UK government is playing the virtual card to launch itself into the 21st century. Today, it announced plans to launch a secure digital wallet to manage government-issued credentials, along with a chatbot built in collaboration with OpenAI that interacts with mainstream apps. GOV.UK portal. Today, it called the chatbot “chat-uk” and said it would be part of a wider portal and app.
The first two cards he plans to add to his wallet will be a virtual driver’s license and a virtual veteran’s card for people who have served in the military. At a press conference today, he plans to launch the service later this year. The GOV.UK portal will be online in 2025, but it has already started testing the chat service and it is now open for ordinary users to try it out, said Peter Kyle, the UK’s secretary of state for technology. strange
“It’s really important that the public start to understand that in the online world and government is moving more and more online, we interact at an earlier stage so we can leverage the power, the insight and the volume. interactions that the public can provide in the test,” Kyle said at a press conference in London today. “Yes, the chat system started speaking French in the middle of the test series, but that was a bug we learned from.”
The developments come at a crossroads for AI development.
On the one hand, the Labor government has doubled down on the idea of building an artificial intelligence economy in the country. Partnerships with private AI companies to invest more in their operations here, more infrastructure such as data centers and supercomputers to support AI services, and a major government commitment to invest in AI services themselves. First, today introduced a number of new AI toolsall still in development: Humphrey, a multifunctional AI assistant for government employees; a push to create AI tools for more consumers; and greater data sharing between government departments to help build and manage AI services.
On the other hand, many questions remain about how AI services will work in the coming years. Just a year ago, the UK took the lead in a wider global conversation about AI security: how a new wave of services built by OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and many others will affect jobs, users, privacy and data protection, copyright and AI- of creating disinformation, facilitating malicious hacking, etc. how it can be misused for nefarious purposes.
The push for more digital services in the UK comes as the US doubles down on its role in the country. On his first day in office yesterday, President Trump formalized a new government “efficiency” effort led by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, called DOGE. also canceled an executive order by predecessor President Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks of artificial intelligence to government, consumers and businesses. This means that building and running security tests around AI systems is no longer required.
The government said it was new GOV.UK The wallet will allow users to securely store government-issued documents on their phones and easily access them when needed. This can be more convenient, for example, when you’re on the move and only have your phone and no physical wallet. “The technology will use security features built into modern smart phones, including facial recognition checks similar to those used when people pay with a digital bank card,” he said. “This means that even if the device is lost, digital documents will be more secure.”
