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Burning Platforms

Per Capita Australia

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. Join Peter Lewis, Lizzie O’Shea (Digital Rights Watch), Dan Stinton (HealthEngine CEO), and guests, fortnightly for analysis of the politics of technology from some of Australia’s leading digital campaigners and industry experts. Brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

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58:06

Emotional Rescue

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2024/08/18

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. Don't forget to subscribe to The Town Crier, the official newsletter of the Centre for the Public Square and Burning

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58:49

How AI Will Really Destroy The World

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2024/08/05

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

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58:27

Rebuilding the Public Square - Live

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2024/07/22

On this week’s Burning Platforms, Peter Lewis launches the “Civility Manifesto” live at the July John Cain Lunch. Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square. Don't forget to subscribe to The Town Crier, the official newsletter of the Centre for the Public Square and Burning Platforms podcast: https://the-town-crier-2.ghost.io/

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57:41

Man-Made

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2024/07/09

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

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56:43

Plurality

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2024/06/24

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.’Listen to Burning Platforms on Apple Podcasts. And don't forget to subscribe to The Town Crier for more tech news from the Centre of the Public Square. Burning Platforms is an initiative of

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01:00:33

Invisible Bystanders

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2024/06/11

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?

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01:02:11

Will Google Eat Itself?

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2024/05/27

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? Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per

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57:08

Who Stole Our Books?

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2024/05/13

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

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01:12:34

Judgment Day

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2024/04/30

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

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01:02:18

In Moderation

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2024/04/16

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

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01:02:48

Mind-Reading for Dummies

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2024/03/27

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? Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the

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01:01:47

The Code 2.0 with Belinda Barnett

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2024/03/19

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

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01:04:31

Judging Meta with Dr Nick Suzor

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2024/02/29

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

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56:39

Faking It

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2023/11/06

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. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

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55:09

Tech Horror Stories

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2023/10/17

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'. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

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44:05

Life of Pi

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2023/09/04

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. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

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53:44

ALP Live Hack

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2023/08/21

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! Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

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49:56

’Cookers’ in their underpants - The Voice and social...

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2023/07/30

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. With The Voice to Parliament referendum campaign in full swing, we examine the role that digital platforms play in influencing the discussion. Our panel is joined special guest Queensland University of Technology Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Axel Bruns. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

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53:01

True Lies - Can we regulate disinformation?

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2023/07/20

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This episode, we are joined by Andrea Carson, Professor of Political Communication from LaTrobe University to dissect ACMA's proposed new disinformation powers, and ask the question, 'Can we actually regulate disinformation?' Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

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56:57

Living With AI

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2023/07/03

Technology described as artificial intelligence is becoming more pervasive, with AI algorithms transforming science and industry, along with our everyday lives. But what is AI really? Is it truly intelligent? Is it always a benignly useful modern-world companion? Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech. This week, the Burning Platforms panel unpack this and more with AI academic Campbell Wilson on his new book 'Living with AI'. Burning Platforms is brought

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