Burning Platforms

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?
 
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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.
 
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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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Faking It

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 
 
As the world races to regulate artificial intelligence and machine learning, we’re joined by Professor Toby Walsh, Chief Scientist at the University of New South Wales and author of new book 'Faking It', to expose all of A.I.’s tricks and lies.
 
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Tech Horror Stories

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 
 
This episode of Burning Platforms looks at the march of AI through the prism of dystopias with critic and writer Richard King, author of 'Here Be Monsters'.
 
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Life of Pi

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. 
On this episode the panel is joined for an intimate discussion with the self described ‘emotional intelligent’ AI chatbot, Pi.
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ALP Live Hack

This episode of Burning Platforms comes live from the Australian Labor Party National Conference Fringe Festival where we talk AI regulation, privacy reform and hack the data of an MP!
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