Burning Platforms

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 Platforms podcast.

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.   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, 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 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   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.   Buy Tracy's book about AI, MAN-MADE: http://tinyurl.com/2b3wzh8c

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 Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square. 

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.    For our listeners on Apple Podcasts - we had to update our feed link due to technical issues. You can now access Burning Platforms via this link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/burning-platforms/id1589024577   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, 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 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/   For more from Ricky Sutton, subscribe to his Substack: https://rickysutton.substack.com/about

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.   Subscribe to The Town Crier, our new newsletter for the Centre of the Public Square and Burning Platforms.

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.   Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.   Subscribe to The Town Crier, our new newsletter for the Centre of the Public Square and Burning Platforms.   Alternatively, you can watch the interview on our YouTube channel.  

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.   Subscribe to The Town Crier, our new newsletter for the Centre of the Public Square and Burning Platforms.   Alternatively, you can watch the interview on our YouTube channel.