Burning Platforms

Man-Made

 
On this week’s Burning Platforms, we talk with author Tracey Spicer about the biases and contradictions at the heart of Artificial Intelligence.
 
Our panel of Essential’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton also ask:
* who really runs Australian tech policy?
* what does the collapse of US privacy reform mean?
* and why is Dan perplexed about Perplexity?
 
Join host Peter Lewis next week at the July John Cain lunch, where he will discuss ‘Rebuilding the Public Square.'  Wednesday July 17. Join us live in Melbourne or via live stream. Register at humanitix.com
 
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Plurality

This week on Burning Platforms, our regular panel of Essential's Peter Lewis and Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea share a special extended interview with Taiwan’s inaugural Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang and Radical xChange founder Glen Weyl about their new collaborative book, ‘Plurality.’
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Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square. 

Invisible Bystanders

This week on Burning Platforms, our regular panel of Essential's Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, and HealthEngine CEO Dan Stinton, are joined by Professor Nicholas Davis from UTS’s Human Technology Institute as they dive deep into new research on how worker power could be the key to harnessing AI to deliver real productivity.
 
Also discussed on this week's Burning Platforms:
   What does Apple’s deal with open AI mean?
   Is Google capturing more of you than you realise?
   Can Australian ban election deep fakes?
 
Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square. 
 
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Will Google Eat Itself?

On this week’s Burning Platforms, host Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton are joined by media and tech commentator Ricky Sutton to dive deep into his analysis of Google’s growing dominance and how it might be its own Achilles Heel.
 
Plus they also ponder whether:Can Scarlett Johansson save the internet?Should we impose age limits on social media?And if should Australia have sovereign AI capability?
 
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Who Stole Our Books?

Is AI robbing writers of their ideas and what can we do about it? 
 
Australian Writers Guild CEO Claire Pullen joins the regular panelists Essential’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton for our fortnightly dive into political tech.
 
They also discuss:
Whether Google really cares about our privacy?
Can an AI deliver talking points better than a politician?
Is the internet already dead?
 
Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
 
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Judgment Day

This week’s Burning Platforms looks at Australia’s face-off with Elon Musk and the role live-streaming has in building media accountability.
 
Also covered: Google’s sacking of workers who protested the companies deployment of its tech stack in Israel and a new wearable that promises to remember everything you say.
 
With special guest, author Tim Dunlop and regular panelists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton. Hosted by Essential Media’s Peter Lewis.
 
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In Moderation

Burning Platforms dives deep into the role humans play in managing large platforms and small communities with academic and convenor of the upcoming All Things in Moderation conference Venessa Paech.
 
Our panel also discusses:
Who is really incognito on Google?
Who should deal with the downstream risks of Open AI’s new Voice Engine?
And are we Witnessing AI’s first acts of genocide?
 
With Peter Lewis from Essential, Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’SHea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton.
 
Burning Platfroms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
 
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Mind-Reading for Dummies

Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology - from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
 
Burning Platforms takes a deep dive into AI-generated mind reading with Michael Blumenstein, Deputy Dean at UTS’s’ Faculty of Engineering and IT.
 
Plus:
Is Trump’s "Truth Social" the Ultimate Deal?
Are new EU Competition Laws a Big Tech game-changer?
And should ‘Post and Boast’ Laws be Toast?
 
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The Code 2.0 with Belinda Barnett

Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology - from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
 
This week, Peter, Lizzie, and Dan dive deep into Meta's threat to pull news from Australia and what it will mean to journalism and whether the compromise required to create the News Media Bargaining Code will become the seeds of its destruction. 
 
Also: * Is banning TikTok the next global border war?* Are self-driving cars jumping the tech shark?* Is a free AI course really 'scholarship?'
 
The Burning Platforms panel was joined by academic, Belinda Barnett.
 
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Judging Meta with Dr Nick Suzor

Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology - from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
 
For our first episode for 2024, Peter, Lizzie, and Dan will discuss the federal governments new doxxing laws, Open AI's latest product, Sora, and question whether LinkedIn is the "last platform standing".
 
We're also joined by Deep Dive/Guest: Nick Suzor,  Law Professor at QUT Digital Media Research Centre and member of Meta’s Oversight Board, to chat about new book Lawless: the secret rules that govern our digital lives.
 
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