Burning Platforms

The founder of Teach Us Consent on her campaign to give young people control over their social media feeds. 

 

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea,  Per Capita’s Peter Lewis and Cam Wilson from The Sizzle also delve into: 

The release of a new privacy code for children

Anthropic’s push into Australia

and Bernie Sanders' new bill for a moratorium on data centres

 

For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The Host of the  ‘Computer Says Maybe’ podcast joins us to give a global take on the power and influence of Big Tech.

 

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also delve into: 

 

the federal government’s green data centre edict

industry’s latest pitch to mine creative data

and Open AI’s pivot away from consumer products

 

For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The Director of QUT’S Digital Media Research Centre outlines how different chatbots take users down different wormholes when they research conspiracy theories.

 
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea and The Sizzle’s Cam Wilson also dig into:

How AI is creating new modes of death and destruction in Iran

Why Pornhub is pulling out of Australia

and Atlassian’s ironic jobs purge

 
For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The former Chief Scientist outlines his new venture, ‘Proudly Human to allow creators to verify their work in the ocean of slop.

 
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

The Australian Government’s defence deals with Palantir

Canadian PM Mark Carney’s call for a Middle Powers LLM

and whether agentic AI will eat the internet

 

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The Burning Platforms panel kick around the carcass of this week when the White House went to war with AI, bosses found new ways to snoop on workers, and the market was moved by a bit of fan fiction.

Per Capita’s Peter Lewis joins Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and The Sizzle’s Cam Wilson try to make sense of the madness.

And some reading to get you warmed up:

Casey Newton - What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out?
HTI - ‘Surveillance Creep’ 
Citrini - The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis 
Dan Kagan-Kans - The Left is missing Out on AI 
Brian Merchant - ‘Actually the Left is Winning the AI Debate'