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Feb 15, 2024 • 35min

Meet the AI insiders who say it’s time to ‘accelerate or die’

Debate between Elon Musk and Larry Page on AI dangers and benefits. Fallout between Musk and Page over AI safety. Remote work, Discord server, and controversial philosopher's influence. Association between AI, libertarianism, and the urgency of acceleration. Firing and rehiring within OpenAI and divide in AI community. Reflecting on battle between openness and E-Ack ideology related to AI.
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Feb 8, 2024 • 33min

'They use us': The Balinese villagers taking on Russian-backed developers

‘Cities’ are popping up across Bali’s spiritual heartland. Can villagers from Ubud hold back a tsunami of foreign money and preserve the island's culture?
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Dec 14, 2023 • 42min

Summer Season: Prisoner of the State

In a nursing home lives an elderly man who is being held against his will. We can’t tell you his name. We can’t tell you his age. We can’t even use his real voice, or the voice of anyone involved in his case. Reporter Anne Connolly investigates what happens when the state rules you're incapable of looking after yourself.
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Dec 14, 2023 • 37min

Summer Season: Remy was 12 when she became a drug dealer

As a teenager, Remy learnt to survive by hustling on the streets of Parramatta. Then she hit the bigtime. Reporter Mahmood Fazal investigates what life is like on the other side of the war on drugs.
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Dec 14, 2023 • 36min

Summer Season: False Witness

Reporter Heidi Davoren provides an extraordinary insight into a parenting dispute, where a mother and father come together after a Family Court psychologist harmed their family.
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Dec 14, 2023 • 39min

Summer Season: Darcey and Chloe Part 01 - How the system failed to save two baby girls

Queensland authorities failed to heed multiple serious warnings that a young pair of sisters were in danger, before it was too late. Their grieving family is now desperate to understand why. Reporter Alexandra Blucher investigates.
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Dec 14, 2023 • 32min

Summer Season: Darcey and Chloe Part 02 - How the system failed to save two baby girls

When two infants die after being left inside a hot car, their family seek answers to how this could have happened. Reporter Alexandra Blucher tracks down a child safety officer involved in their case, and hears why she believes the girls' deaths could have been prevented.
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Dec 14, 2023 • 32min

Summer Season: The Whistleblower who helped catch a paedophile politican

After an electoral officer helped police arrest a popular state minister, her life began to unravel.
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Dec 14, 2023 • 35min

Summer Season: The whistleblower who exposed Australia’s secretive offshore detention system

"Simone" arrived on a remote island to help asylum seekers. But she witnessed something there that convinced her to leak over 2000 documents. Reporters Paul Farrell and Maddison Conaughton investigate what happened.
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Dec 14, 2023 • 31min

Summer Season: An aspiring doctor from the 'burbs takes on medical schools for elitism

From humble beginnings, Fahad faced hurdles entering medical school. Now, he fights for equal access to medical education. Marty Smiley reports.

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