Burning Platforms

Kids’ Gloves with Carly Kind

The Privacy Commissioner takes us through the new code to to give children greater control over their data and how this could open the door for less surveillance for all of us.
 
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also delve into: 
 
What’s behind the cancellation of RightsCon? 
Why did Jack Dorsey lay off 40 per cent of his business?
And who wins when two tech overlords go to court?
 
For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/
 

Hyperscaling with Ed Husic

The Labor MP and former Industry Minister on how the power of the global tech giants and why tech sovereignty is non-negotiable.
 
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also delve into: 
 
Who is enabling the Nudify apps?
Is there a world beyond the US AI stack?
And what on earth is Palintir CEO Alex Karp smoking?
 
For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/
 

Popular Front with Cam Wilson

The Sizzle editor (and freshly minted ABC AI reporter) joins us to make sense of the spate of attacks on CEO leaders.
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also delve into: 
What role should AI play in Aged Care?
Is all the AI Bubble talk just hot air?
And how to get into a slinging match with a chat bot?
For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

War Crimes with Prof Toby Walsh

On this week's Burning Platforms, Australia’s leading AI scientist, Prof Toby Walsh, takes us through the failing efforts to place limits around the automation of military conflict.
Regular panelists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:
Sam Altman’s moments of truth
Anthropic’s Maven’s Vuln-pocalypse
and the AI Bubble's Overton Window
For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/ 

Industrial Revolution with Joseph Mitchell

The ACTU’s Assistant Secretary takes us through the multiple challenges AI poses workers and the pressure points where unions are pushing back.
 
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also delve into: 
Anthropic’s pitch to Canberra
slop-aganda in the Iranian war
and a new platform to Surf the fedi-verse
 
For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

Muting The Manosphere with Chanel Contos

The founder of Teach Us Consent on her campaign to give young people control over their social media feeds. 
 
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea,  Per Capita’s Peter Lewis and Cam Wilson from The Sizzle also delve into: 
The release of a new privacy code for children
Anthropic’s push into Australia
and Bernie Sanders' new bill for a moratorium on data centres
 
For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

One Battle After Another with Alix Dunn

The Host of the  ‘Computer Says Maybe’ podcast joins us to give a global take on the power and influence of Big Tech.
 
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also delve into: 
 
the federal government’s green data centre edict
industry’s latest pitch to mine creative data
and Open AI’s pivot away from consumer products
 
For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

Just Asking with Prof Daniel Angus

 
The Director of QUT’S Digital Media Research Centre outlines how different chatbots take users down different wormholes when they research conspiracy theories.
 
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea and The Sizzle’s Cam Wilson also dig into:
How AI is creating new modes of death and destruction in Iran
Why Pornhub is pulling out of Australia
and Atlassian’s ironic jobs purge
 
For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

Trust Mark with Alan Finkel

The former Chief Scientist outlines his new venture, ‘Proudly Human to allow creators to verify their work in the ocean of slop.
 
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:
The Australian Government’s defence deals with Palantir
Canadian PM Mark Carney’s call for a Middle Powers LLM
and whether agentic AI will eat the internet
 
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World on Fire

The Burning Platforms panel kick around the carcass of this week when the White House went to war with AI, bosses found new ways to snoop on workers, and the market was moved by a bit of fan fiction.
Per Capita’s Peter Lewis joins Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and The Sizzle’s Cam Wilson try to make sense of the madness.
And some reading to get you warmed up:
Casey Newton - What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out?HTI - ‘Surveillance Creep’ Citrini - The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis Dan Kagan-Kans - The Left is missing Out on AI Brian Merchant - ‘Actually the Left is Winning the AI Debate'