Burning Platforms

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/  

  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 P...

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 C...

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...

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 me...

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...

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...

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 L...

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? An...

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:...

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 Suzo...

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 - a...

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.  

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.

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.

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 Cen...

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...

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...

Apps now harvest so much of our data, from our locations and movements, our shopping habits, even for some women - their fertility. What are the privacy implications of capturing this much bodily information? Burning Platforms speaks with academic Katharine Kemp about her work tracking the data-harvesting of fertility apps. Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - a...

With a new focus on protecting children online as part of an evolution of the Privacy Act, rights activist Chloe Shorten (Director Alfred Health and Industry Funds Services, Ambassador Foyer Foundation) joins the Burning Platforms panel to look at the case for using new and existing laws to define and enforce the rights of minors.   And don't forget to vote for our SXSW proposal.   Burning Platfor...

With the first major review of the Australian Privacy Act in 40 years reaching end-game, the Burning Platforms panel unpack the state of events, and discuss a new report looking at how tick-a-box consent is undermining our freedom and privacy.   Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

After the string of hacks in late 2022 the government has developed a new online identity wallet. What is the logic behind it? Will it provide better privacy for citizens? And should we trust government with our data anyway?   Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.      This week Peter Lewis, Lizzie O'Shea, and Dan Stinton are joined by Professor Ed Santow, Dir...

Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.    This week, we speak with Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, authors of new book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' and explore how creatives can break free of Big Tech and Big Content   Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

The final Burning Platforms of 2022 reflects on the year that was, including Elon Musk, tech regulation, privacy and more. Plus we held quizzes, played 'Dan or bot', and launched new book 'Disconnect'! Burning Platforms is brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.

Twitter is imploding before our eyes under Elon Musk, Meta is shedding staff and stock prices, and the crypto winter freezes out more people as FTX collapses. Is this the end of the (Big Tech) world as we know it? And are we all feeling fine? What will happen next?   Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.    Join Peter Lewis, Lizzie O'Shea, and Dan Stinton for...