Burning Platforms

World Gone Wild

Burning Platforms is back for 2025.
With the tech overlords in the ascendant, particularly following the US election, we take stock of the impending inferno with our regular panel Per Capita’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine Dan Stinton, and special guest, fresh from the Paris AI Summit, Professor Nick Davis from UTS’ Human Technology Institute.
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Setting the Guardrails

In our final episode of 2024 we unpack the recent Senate Report into the Adoption of AI in Australia with Committee Chair Senator Tony Sheldon.
 
We also look at:
Woolworth's industrial dispute over workplace surveillance
Why Meta is building a deep sea cable to India
How TikTok was gamed to deliver an election boil over in Romania
 
With regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, HealthEngine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita's Peter Lewis.
 
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Strange Bedfellows

Burning Platforms dives deep into the common ground between national security and individual privacy with cybersecurity expert Miah Hammond-Errey, host of the Technology and Security podcast.
 
Also this week:
* Bunnings wrapped over facial recognition
* Trump’s crypto bonanza
* and could the Social Media Ban have a silver lining?
 
Panelists:
* Digital Rights Watch chair, Lizzie O’Shea, 
* Health Engine CEO, Dan Stinton
* and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis
 
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The Tech-Bro Election

 
The upcoming US Presidential elections will shape - and be shaped by - the Web3 community. We talk with Mark Monfort from the Aus De-Fi Association on what the moment means.
 
He joins our panel of Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton, digital rights advocate Kate Bower and Peter Lewis from Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
 
Also this week:
* The new front on chat-bot accountability
* Is Emotional Intelligence the next killer app?
* and has AI doomer-ism turned the corner?
 
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The Digital Dark Age

As researchers are locked out of digital platforms, we contemplate a new era of control and secrecy, with responsible tech academic Gina Neff.
She joins our panel of  Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie OShea, Choice’s digital campaign lead Rafi Alam and Peter Lewis from Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
Also this week:The Social Media Summit takeawaysThe eyes inside our carsAnd the Nobel Prize’s AI extravaganza
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The Age of Intelligence?

Open AI's Sam Altman has launched a new product line with a new business model and a new philosophy. But do they all line up? 
Lee Schofield from ‘Future is Now’ with our regular panelists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton.
 
We also cover
·      The fallout from 7-Eleven’s privacy breach 
·      Misinformation and disinformation laws 
·      And  Mark Zuckerberg’s new Metaverse glasses.
 
Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
 
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Privacy Now!

Listen to our live virtual town hall briefing to discuss the Federal Government’s much anticipated plans for privacy reform and the launch o the Privacy Now campaign - https://privacynow.org.au/.
 
With:
Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind
Human Technology Institute director Ed Santow
Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea
 
Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
 
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The NSFW Edition

 
What can Only Fans teach us about the internet? Social media academic Emily van der Nagel takes us through her research with content creators and consumers to reveal the logic behind a very different platform.
 
She joins our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Centre of the Public Square convenor Peter Lewis.
 
Also this week:
The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov
Musicians count the cost of AI; and 
What next for the News Media Bargaining Code?
 
Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
 

Emotional Rescue

In this week's episode if Burning Platforms, the panel dives into the product liability of companion apps with consumer law academia, Jeannie Peterson.
Also this week, they touch on:* the UK riots and platform responsibility* Musk’s X-rated presidential dalliance* and the People’s bid for TiKTok
Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
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How AI Will Really Destroy The World

Forget intelligent machines waging war on humans, the real threat could be the amount of energy and water data processing centres are sucking up in the service of AI.
 
Gordon Noble from UTS’s Institute of Sustainable Futures has been crunching the numbers and it makes for alarming reading.
 
He joins our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Centre of the Public Square convenor Peter Lewis.
 
Also this week:
Has the US Supreme Court just granted Big Tech a giant leave pass?
Why is Google still addicted to Cookies?
And could Mark Zuckerberg by right, for once 
 
Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
 
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