Blue Buffery

In what many observers have interpreted as a knee jerk reaction to head off opinion polls advances by the Reform Party, UK Premier Sir Kier Starmer, announced the introduction of a digital ID card scheme. The key benefit of which would be that without it you could not work. Though Sir Kier neglected to provide any further details. A confusion that has provoked David Birch, one of the world’s leading experts on digital identity to urgently call on the Government  for clarity.

In this month’s PassW0rd, ‘Digitally Resonating’, we tackle living and working in the Artificial Intelligence world of the 21st century and examine the rapidly developing digital twins that will be our presence in the online world. Twins that according to some, will either rob us of our jobs or give us new roles that will free us from the constraints of the old offline world.

Concerns over the rapid development of AI technology prompted by the rollout of programmes like ChatGPT and Bard have led to growing calls to regulate the use of AI. According to a number of leading experts interviewed for the March 2023 edition of Future Intelligence’s PassW0rd radio programme ‘This AI life’ the need for an agency to regulate the use of AI is now clear.