As soon as mimicking voices, text messages, human faces becomes a serious problem, like this case in UK [1], then citizens will demand a solution to that problem. I don't personally know how prevalent problems like that are as of today, but given the current trajectory of A.I. models which become smaller, cheaper and better all the time, soon everyone on the planet will be able to mimic every voice, every face and every handwritten signature of anyone else.
As soon as this becomes a problem, then it might start bottom-up, citizens to government officials, rather than top to bottom, from president to government departments. Then governments will be forced to formalize identity solutions based on cryptography. See also this case in Germany [2].
One example like that, is bankruptcy laws in China. China didn't have any law regarding to bankruptcy till 2007. For a communist country, or rather not totally capitalist country like China, bankruptcy is not an important subject. When some people stop being profitable, they will keep working because they like to work and they contribute to the great nation of China. That doesn't make any sense of course, so their government was forced to implement some bankruptcy laws.
As soon as this becomes a problem, then it might start bottom-up, citizens to government officials, rather than top to bottom, from president to government departments. Then governments will be forced to formalize identity solutions based on cryptography. See also this case in Germany [2].
One example like that, is bankruptcy laws in China. China didn't have any law regarding to bankruptcy till 2007. For a communist country, or rather not totally capitalist country like China, bankruptcy is not an important subject. When some people stop being profitable, they will keep working because they like to work and they contribute to the great nation of China. That doesn't make any sense of course, so their government was forced to implement some bankruptcy laws.
[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/fraudsters-use-ai-to-mimic-ceos... [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39866056