Burning Platforms

As privacy reforms gather momentum, the co-director of the Human Technology Institute walks us through the proposed changes and their implications for the digital world.

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

Meta’s mega $18 billion legal settlement for harming children

Hugging Face’s AI agents mutiny

And the hidden cost of the AUKUS treaty

For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The co-founder of the Tech Policy Design Centre on the development of new laws to hold tech companies to account for the harms of their products.

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

The new salt mines of AI

Australia’s pitch for AI sovereignty

and ARIA’s purge of slop from the music charts

For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The co-founder of the Human Technology lays down his megapixel provocation and challenges us to stop thinking about AI as being so different that we can’t control it.

Panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, ABC National AI Reporter Cam Wilson and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss

Can Automated Decision Making work for the people?

Is the Social Media Ban making things worse?

Is surveillance-busting ‘adversarial fashion’ the new black?

For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The national security expert on the strategic risks of cognitive readiness and information is the new theatre of conflict.

 

Panellists  Australian Writers Guild CEO Claire Pullen, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

Pornography as harbinger of digital doom

Mark Zuckerburg’s values-free ‘Encyclical’

Australia’s nascent Digital Duty of Care.

 

For show notes go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The author of 'Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy' on how citizens must seize new technology to ensure it works for them.
 
Regular panelists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O'Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita's Peter Lewis also discuss

Anthropic's rare book-breaking binge

Backlash over the surveillance of open models

How to regulate perv glasses

For show notes and further discussion go to: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/