All posts by Jack Aldane

About Jack Aldane

Jack is a British journalist, cartoonist and podcaster. He graduated from Heythrop College London in 2009 with a BA in philosophy, before living and working in China for three years as a freelance reporter. After training in financial journalism at City University from 2013 to 2014, Jack worked at Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters before moving into editing magazines on global trade and development finance. Shortly after editing opinion writing for UnHerd, he joined the independent think tank ResPublica, where he led a media campaign to change the health and safety requirements around asbestos in UK public buildings. As host and producer of The Booking Club podcast – a conversation series featuring prominent authors and commentators at their favourite restaurants – Jack continues to engage today’s most distinguished thinkers on the biggest problems pertaining to ideology and power in the 21st century. He joined Global Government Forum as its Senior Staff Writer and Community Co-ordinator in 2021.

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  G7 leaders ‘take stock’ of AI amid calls for shared governance standards

  National leaders from the Group of Seven have vowed to work together and with other international partners to achieve “the common vision and goal of trustworthy AI”. The development of

  • Posted May 25, 2023
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  UK civil servants seek legal routes to oust bullies; US proposes hiring feds responsible for emerging tech: management & workforce news in brief

  UK senior civil servants mount organised challenge to politician bullies British senior civil servants have voted to collectively oppose the use of intimidating and inflammatory language by politicians and could

  • Posted May 18, 2023
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  Agencies ‘don’t have the tools’ to head off ChatGPT threat to national security, warns Pentagon’s AI chief

  The US Department of Defense’s chief digital and AI officer Craig Martell said he is “scared to death” of the potential for generative artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT to deceive

  • Posted May 11, 2023
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  UK government officially shuts down beleaguered Verify ID service

  The UK government’s controversial GOV.UK Verify platform has been closed down for good following an announcement that no public services were using it to support user logins. The platform, developed

  • Posted May 8, 2023
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  Biden administration rolls back telework as Australia tables flexible work principles

  The Biden administration announced measures to reduce teleworking at federal agencies on 13 April, exactly a year after agencies began implementing their return-to-office plans. A memo sent to agency heads

  • Posted April 19, 2023
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  Sharing is daring: why joined-up use of data is so challenging for government – and how to get better at it

  By 2025, all critical data assets will be available for use across the UK government. That is the goal set by ministers, who recognise that while the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated

  • Posted April 18, 2023
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  Citizens sue EU governments over failure to deliver on climate change pledges

  Citizens of European Union member states have sued their respective national governments over failure to tackle climate change in a first for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Three

  • Posted April 6, 2023
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  US digital identity bill passes through to Senate

  An interagency task force whose job would be to support “reliable, interoperable digital identity verification in the public and private sectors” could be established by the US federal government after

  • Posted April 6, 2023
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  Biden administration tables ambitious anti-COVID fraud legislation

  US president Joe Biden proposed a wide-ranging piece of legislation on 2 March to tackle fraud and help citizens affected by identity theft during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden set out

  • Posted March 8, 2023
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  Digital ID: US government poised for national rollout, while Australia finds its ‘North Star’ to harmonise standards

  The US federal government’s Login .gov digital identity service could be expanded nationally, according to the terms of a draft executive order, while the Australian government has set out plans

  • Posted March 1, 2023
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