Burning Platforms

This week on Burning Platforms we dive deep into Pope Leo’s XIV’s  encyclical with Dr Michael Walker from the Justice and Peace Office at the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney .

 

Our panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, ABC AI reporter Cam Wilson and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also delve into:

AI’s Trust Deficit 

Amnesty International’s new report: Unlawful by Design

and Greenpeace’s new research on data centres ‘Energy Vampires’

 

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

The founder of start-up Noizend on the challenges of scaling tech in Australia and how the real innovation is not running on the back of LLMs.

 

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

Why is Meta ditching End to End Encryption?

Will Google’s new IO break the internet?

And Elon Musk’s the SpaceX float take-off?

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

Internet academic Tama Leaver on the lines between regulating and equipping children to navigate the  AI revolution.

 

Panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, ABC AI reporter Cam Wilson and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also delve into: 

 

Students Jeer AI Inspiration 

Palantir’s Surveillance Playbook

and can we build an AI Wealth Fund? 

 

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

The Australian Writer’s Guild CEO Claire Pullen updates us on the fight to protect Australian creators from the industrial-scale thrift of their work.

 

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

 

The wild west of AI-powered toys 

Chat-GPT’s new bot-phone

and how Anthropic is tapping religious leaders for moral guidance 

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

The Privacy Commissioner takes us through the new code to to give children greater control over their data and how this could open the door for less surveillance for all of us.

 

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

 

What’s behind the cancellation of RightsCon? 

Why did Jack Dorsey lay off 40 per cent of his business?

And who wins when two tech overlords go to court?

 

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