The Government is set to trial an AI chatbot to help people negotiate its 700,000-page Gov.uk website. The chatbot is expected to become part of the new Gov.uk app, which launches on Tuesday.

The gut-punch Black Mirror episode, “Be Right Back,” from 2013 imagines a type of ChatGPT AI that consumes a lifetime of texts, posts, and videos to rebuild a dead boyfriend. At first, the replica ...