Burning Platforms

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 

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/

The Labor MP and former Industry Minister on how the power of the global tech giants and why tech sovereignty is non-negotiable.

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

Who is enabling the Nudify apps?

Is there a world beyond the US AI stack?

And what on earth is Palintir CEO Alex Karp smoking?

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

The Sizzle editor (and freshly minted ABC AI reporter) joins us to make sense of the spate of attacks on CEO leaders.

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

On this week's Burning Platforms, Australia’s leading AI scientist, Prof Toby Walsh, takes us through the failing efforts to place limits around the automation of military conflict.

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

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

The ACTU’s Assistant Secretary takes us through the multiple challenges AI poses workers and the pressure points where unions are pushing back.

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

Anthropic’s pitch to Canberra

slop-aganda in the Iranian war

and a new platform to Surf the fedi-verse

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

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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