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Burning Platforms episodes

April 29, 2025 2025 Federal Election Special (or Much Ado About Nothing)
With a federal election within days, Burning Platforms looks at the lack of discussion about tech and whether that is a good or bad thing.

With Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Per Capita’s Peter Lewis and special guests, Editor of The Sizzle, Cam Wilson and Dr Rys Farthing from Reset Australia.

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1 hr 2 min
April 14, 2025Distilling the Slop
As the world teeters on the brink of whatever comes after globalisation we dive deep into the way AI is transforming film-making with the director of the iconic Australian film Kenny, Clay Jacobson.

Our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:
The theory that the Trump Tariffs were cooked up by a chatbot
The growing chance that the FTC anti-trust case against Meta is history; and
The backlash against Chat GPT’s appropriation of Studio Ghibli’s acclaimed work.

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1 hr 1 min
March 24, 2025 Taxing Times
On this week's episode of Burning Platforms, the gang looks at global efforts to force Big Tech to pay their share of tax with special guest Dr Mark Zirnsak from the Tax Justice Network.

With our regular panelists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis.

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57 min
March 18, 2025The National Trust
This week on Burning Platforms, we dive deep into a new initiative to understand the role of Trust in the relationship between society and technology with special guest, Professor Terry Flew.

With regular panelists Per Capita’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine Dan Stinton, we'll also look at:
Data Centre Diplomacy
will Google’s AI search eat itself?
and Digg’s reboot

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1 hr 2 min
March 03, 2025 World Gone Wild
Burning Platforms is back for 2025.
With the tech overlords in the ascendant, particularly following the US election, we take stock of the impending inferno with our regular panel Per Capita’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine Dan Stinton, and special guest, fresh from the Paris AI Summit, Professor Nick Davis from UTS’ Human Technology Institute.
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52 min
December 16, 2024Setting the Guardrails
In our final episode of 2024 we unpack the recent Senate Report into the Adoption of AI in Australia with Committee Chair Senator Tony Sheldon.

We also look at:
Woolworth's industrial dispute over workplace surveillance
Why Meta is building a deep sea cable to India
How TikTok was gamed to deliver an election boil over in Romania

With regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, HealthEngine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita's Peter Lewis.

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1 hr 4 min
November 25, 2024 Strange Bedfellows
Burning Platforms dives deep into the common ground between national security and individual privacy with cybersecurity expert Miah Hammond-Errey, host of the Technology and Security podcast.

Also this week:
* Bunnings wrapped over facial recognition
* Trump’s crypto bonanza
* and could the Social Media Ban have a silver lining?

Panelists:
* Digital Rights Watch chair, Lizzie O’Shea,
* Health Engine CEO, Dan Stinton
* and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis

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1 hr 6 min
November 04, 2024 The Tech-Bro Election
The upcoming US Presidential elections will shape - and be shaped by - the Web3 community. We talk with Mark Monfort from the Aus De-Fi Association on what the moment means.

He joins our panel of Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton, digital rights advocate Kate Bower and Peter Lewis from Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

Also this week:
* The new front on chat-bot accountability
* Is Emotional Intelligence the next killer app?
* and has AI doomer-ism turned the corner?

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Warning - This episode mentions suicide. If you or anyone you know needs support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or at lifeline.org.au, or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636 or at beyondblue.org.au/forums.
1 hr 1 min
October 21, 2024 The Digital Dark Age
As researchers are locked out of digital platforms, we contemplate a new era of control and secrecy, with responsible tech academic Gina Neff.
She joins our panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie OShea, Choice’s digital campaign lead Rafi Alam and Peter Lewis from Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
Also this week:
The Social Media Summit takeaways
The eyes inside our cars
And the Nobel Prize’s AI extravaganza
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1 hr 3 min
October 07, 2024 The Age of Intelligence?
Open AI's Sam Altman has launched a new product line with a new business model and a new philosophy. But do they all line up?

Lee Schofield from ‘Future is Now’ with our regular panelists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton.

We also cover
· The fallout from 7-Eleven’s privacy breach
· Misinformation and disinformation laws
· And Mark Zuckerberg’s new Metaverse glasses.

Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

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1 hr 2 min

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Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.

Join Peter Lewis, Lizzie O’Shea (Digital Rights Watch), Dan Stinton (HealthEngine CEO), and guests, fortnightly…