Google has agreed a sweeping deal with the UK government to provide free technology to the public sector from the NHS to local councils– a move campaigners have called "dangerously naive". The US company will be asked to "upskill" tens of thousands of civil servants in technology, including in using artificial intelligence, as part of an agreement which will not require the government to pay. It is considered in Whitehall to be giving Google "a foot in the door" as the digitisation of public services accelerates. However, the agreement prompted concerns about the precariousness of UK public data being held on US servers amid the unpredictable leadership of Donald Trump. The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said Google Cloud, which provides databases, machine learning and computing power, had "agreed to work with the UK government in helping public services use advanced tech to shake off decades old'ball and chain' legacy contracts which leave essential services vulnerable to cyber-attack". Google's services are considered more agile and efficient than traditional competitors, but there are concerns in Whitehall's digital circles about the government becoming locked into a new kind of dependency.

A Dragons' Den-style event this week, where tech companies will have 20 minutes to pitch ideas for increasing automation in the British justice system, is one of numerous examples of how the cash-strapped Labour government hopes artificial intelligence and data science can save money and improve public services. Amid warnings from critics that Downing Street has been "drinking the Kool-Aid" on AI, the Department of Health and Social Care this week announced an AI early warning system to detect dangerous maternity services after a series of scandals, and Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said he wants one in eight operations to be conducted by a robot within a decade. AI is being used to prioritise actions on the 25,000 pieces of correspondence the Department for Work and Pensions receives each day and to detect potential fraud and error in benefit claims. Ministers even have access to an AI tool that is supposed to provide a "vibe check" on parliamentary opinion to help them weigh the political risks of policy proposals. Again and again, ministers are turning to technology to tackle acute crises that in the past might have been dealt with by employing more staff or investing more money.

Artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT could play a role in Whitehall and represent a "massive opportunity", the new science secretary has suggested. Michelle Donelan, who took over the new role after the prime minister's departmental reshuffle last month, said the civil service should rely on its own experts but did not rule out a role for artificial intelligence in the future. ChatGPT can generate articles, essays, jokes, poetry and job applications in response to text prompts. OpenAI, a private company backed by Microsoft, made it available to the public for free in November. It can respond to questions in a human-like manner and understand the context of follow-up queries much like in human conversations, as well as being able to compose longform pieces of writing if asked.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. U.K.'s chief of the Defense Staff said in a televised interview aired Sunday that economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic increases the risk of a third world war, adding that robot soldiers could make up at least a quarter of the British army by the 2030s In an interview with Sky News ahead of Remembrance Day, Gen. Sir Nick Carter, the professional head of the British armed forces, said tributes to those who perished during wartime still hold relevance today even though there is no one alive who served in World War I and the number of veterans from World War II is dwindling. "We have to remember that history might not repeat itself but it has a rhythm and if you look back at the last century, before both world wars, I think it was unarguable that there was escalation, which led to the miscalculation, which ultimately led to war at a scale we would hopefully never see again," he said. Veteran Charlie MacVicar, who served for 23 years with Royal Scots (Edinburgh Unit) pays his respects at the Royal British Legion Remembrance Garden, on Remembrance Sunday, in Grangemouth, Scotland, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020.

As protests continue both in the United States and the United Kingdom over police brutality and the death of George Floyd, an iPhone shortcut that allows users to quickly record interactions with law enforcement is becoming more popular. The tool, which was created in 2018, uses Apple's Shortcuts app. This allows users to trigger a series of actions based on a single word, similar to Routines with Amazon's Alexa voice assistant. Saying "Hey Siri, I'm getting pulled over" will automatically activate the program, which pauses any music that could be playing, turns down the brightness on the phone screen, and puts the device on Do Not Disturb. It can also send a contact a text message, letting them know that you have been pulled over by the police as well as sending your exact location.

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