Burning Platforms

As Australia confronts the Open AI hack on Medicare we are joined by an expert in strategic foresight to explore how we can confront  the AI revolution with the benefit of hindsight.
Panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, ABC national AI reporter Cam Wilson and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:
whether AI models can get drunk
is it time for an AI Pause?
and Audrey Tang’s call for a citizen jury to guide AI
For show notes go to Burning Platforms on substack - https://burningplatforms.substack.com/
 

The Sydney University scholar explains how people can train their algorithms to get a better online experience and what it means to the Digital Duty of Care.
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:
Frontier Tech’s global reckoning
Open AI’s massive content heist
and the Australian bros building a global slop empire
For cuts and curios from this week’s show go to Burning Platforms on Substack

The CEO of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation gives her verdict on  the government’s new Digital Duty of care laws.
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:
the AI hyperscaler’ cry for help
Apple’s creepy new release
and the surveillance legacy of 9/11.
For show notes go to https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The independent MP on her community-driven plan for AI, working with government from the cross-bench and pushing the pace of reform.
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:
GetUp’s big Palantir win
Rogue AI latest salvo
and the Digital Duty of Care laws
For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/
 

As privacy reforms gather momentum, the co-director of the Human Technology Institute walks us through the proposed changes and their implications for the digital world.
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:
Meta’s mega $18 billion legal settlement for harming children
Hugging Face’s AI agents mutiny
And the hidden cost of the AUKUS treaty
For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The co-founder of the Tech Policy Design Centre on the development of new laws to hold tech companies to account for the harms of their products.
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also dig into:
The new salt mines of AI
Australia’s pitch for AI sovereignty
and ARIA’s purge of slop from the music charts
For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The co-founder of the Human Technology lays down his megapixel provocation and challenges us to stop thinking about AI as being so different that we can’t control it.
Panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, ABC National AI Reporter Cam Wilson and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss
Can Automated Decision Making work for the people?
Is the Social Media Ban making things worse?
Is surveillance-busting ‘adversarial fashion’ the new black?
For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The national security expert on the strategic risks of cognitive readiness and information is the new theatre of conflict.
 
Panellists  Australian Writers Guild CEO Claire Pullen, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:
Pornography as harbinger of digital doom
Mark Zuckerburg’s values-free ‘Encyclical’
Australia’s nascent Digital Duty of Care.
 
For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The author of 'Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy' on how citizens must seize new technology to ensure it works for them.
 
Regular panelists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O'Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita's Peter Lewis also discuss
Anthropic's rare book-breaking binge
Backlash over the surveillance of open models
How to regulate perv glasses
For show notes and further discussion go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

Burning Platforms is back for another live show, this time recorded  at the 2026 ALP Conference in Adelaide where we launched the "FairAI Initiative" with Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Human technology Institute co-director Ed Santow and Senator Tony Sheldon.
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For more on the Centre of the Public Square and it's research into AI policy, check out: https://percapita.org.au/the-centre-of-the-public-square/
Last but no least, learn more about the Fair AI Initiative here: https://www.fairai.au/