Burning Platforms

Burning Platforms is BACK for 2026. The panels returns this week to unpack the existential risks AI presents with the Good Ancestors CEO, Greg Sadler. Spoiler: it's not just AGI.
 
With our regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis, the panel also discuss:

Grok’s wild (and gross) summer

ChatGTP’s foray into health

and Bandcamp’s AI pledge

 
Check our Good Ancestors: https://www.goodancestors.org.au/
 

Join us in discussing the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit: https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome 

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As 2025 crashes out we survey the highs and lows of the year in tech with long-time platform burner Human Technology Institute co-director Ed Santow.

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

the Government’s AI Plan

the Social Media Ban

and what to read over summer

Join us in discussing the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit: https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome 

Help the Centre of the Public Square fund its research into AI and responsible technology - donate to Per Capita today: https://percapita.org.au/donate/

While the vested interests wrestle with the intricacies of AI regulation, are community library conversations the best bet for shaping our tech future? On this week's episode of Burning Platforms, we meet the academic who is fighting the algorithm with words.

 

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

Meta’s latest Anti-Trust win

The News Media Bargaining Incentive

The case for an "AI Slop" Tax

 

Book a ticket for Cory’s late night show: https://events.humanitix.com/system-error-late-night-show

 

Read Lizzie’s Baffler piece: https://thebaffler.com/latest/antitrust-issues-oshea

 

Join us in discussing the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit: https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

How much energy will AI really burn? Climate writer and activist Ketan Joshi joins Burning Platforms to chat AI and Climate: what we know, what we don’t know and what data centres have to do with yogurt tubs.

 

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

Meta’s sloppy business model

Apple’s arranged AI marriage with Google

The Federal Government’s AI mission

 

To find out more about Ketan’s work, go to: https://ketanjoshi.co/blog/

 

To discuss the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit - https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

Is Big Tech’s domination of AI inevitable or are there different ways of organising our data to shift the power the dynamic? We discuss the RadicalXChange project with its new director, Jess Scully.

 

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

Government blocks text and data mining

Human Rights over our brain waves

Sam Altman’s wank-bot

To find out more about RadicalxChange go to: https://www.radicalxchange.org/

 

To discuss the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit - https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

 

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