They're always going on about cleaning in and behind the ears. Let's be honest here. Ears are pretty ugly and you don't need them to hear. You can prevent so many infections because cutting off the ear makes it easier to clean the ear canal.
infant Earectomy infection study
It's a joke
Even if you can do this with AI and it produces a fully working result, the biggest problems in legacy systems are not the programming languages they are written in.
In fact converting one programming language into another doesn't require AI. That's because programming languages are uniform and exact. You can easily find tools that do this already.
The biggest problem is decades of technical debt and forgotten rules. With old mainframes the people who wrote the code are often no longer with us.
I don't envy you. I learned cool in university and vowed to never touch it again. Without going into too much detail, what are some of the common problems?
I'm not from the UK and also don't have any background on this, can you perhaps explain why it's overreach?
I would think that ID documents being digital is a logical step to digitisation.