Burning Platforms
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 for analysis of the politics of technology from some of Australia’s leading digital campaigners and industry experts.
Brought to you by the Centre of the Public Square - an initiative of Per Capita.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 75
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The NSFW Edition
Emotional Rescue
In this week's episode if Burning Platforms, the panel dives into the product liability of companion apps with consumer law academia, Jeannie Peterson.
Also this week, they touch on:
* the UK riots a…
How AI Will Really Destroy The World
Forget intelligent machines waging war on humans, the real threat could be the amount of energy and water data processing centres are sucking up in the service of AI.
Gordon Noble from UTS’s Instit…
Rebuilding the Public Square - Live
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Man-Made
Plurality
This week on Burning Platforms, our regular panel of Essential's Peter Lewis and Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea share a special extended interview with Taiwan’s inaugural Minister of Digita…
Invisible Bystanders
Will Google Eat Itself?
On this week’s Burning Platforms, host Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton are joined by media and tech commentator Ricky Sutton to dive deep into …
Who Stole Our Books?
Is AI robbing writers of their ideas and what can we do about it?
Australian Writers Guild CEO Claire Pullen joins the regular panelists Essential’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie…
Judgment Day
This week’s Burning Platforms looks at Australia’s face-off with Elon Musk and the role live-streaming has in building media accountability.
Also covered: Google’s sacking of workers who protested …
In Moderation
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Mind-Reading for Dummies
Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology - from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
Burning Platforms takes a deep dive into AI-generated…
The Code 2.0 with Belinda Barnett
Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology - from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
This week, Peter, Lizzie, and Dan dive deep into Meta…
Judging Meta with Dr Nick Suzor
Welcome back to Burning Platforms – a podcast about the politics of technology - from our new home at Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.
For our first episode for 2024, Peter, Lizzie, and Da…
Faking It
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.
As the world races to regulate artificial intelligence and machine learning, we’re joined by Professor Toby Walsh, Chief…
Tech Horror Stories
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.
This episode of Burning Platforms looks at the march of AI through the prism of dystopias with critic and writer Richard…
Life of Pi
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.
On this episode the panel is joined for an intimate discussion with the self described ‘emotional intelligent’ AI chatbot,…
ALP Live Hack
This episode of Burning Platforms comes live from the Australian Labor Party National Conference Fringe Festival where we talk AI regulation, privacy reform and hack the data of an MP!
Burning Platf…
’Cookers’ in their underpants - The Voice and social media
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.
With The Voice to Parliament referendum campaign in full swing, we examine the role that digital platforms play in influ…
True Lies - Can we regulate disinformation?
Welcome to Burning Platforms: De-Coding the Power and Politics of Big Tech.
This episode, we are joined by Andrea Carson, Professor of Political Communication from LaTrobe University to dissect AC…