Burning Platforms
by Per Capita Australia
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About this podcast
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.
Episodes
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- God in a Box with Toby Walsh · 43 min · Episode 117The AI scientist and author on his rising concerns about existential risk and the false inevitability of the hyper-scalers. Panellists ABC AI correspondent Ca, Wilson, Tech…
- Science Friction with Anna-Maria Arabia · 42 min · Episode 116The CEO of the new Australian Council on AI Strategy on the big decisions and competing trade-offs facing Australia and where scientists fit in the conversation. Panelists…
- Digging for Truth with Craig Silverman · 46 min · Episode 115The co-founder of Indicator on how lies have taken over the internet and what we can all do to build a better information ecosystem. Also this week: Culture wars over digital…
- Open Season with Simon Kriss · 45 min · Episode 114As Open AI apologises to Australia the CEO of Sovereign AI takes us through the relative merits of open weight, open source and closed AI models. Regular panellists Digital…
- Rearview Mirror with Matt Finch · 46 min · Episode 113As Australia confronts the Open AI hack on Medicare we are joined by an expert in strategic foresight to explore how we can confront the AI revolution with the benefit of…
- Tame Your Feed with Agata Stepnik · 48 min · Episode 112The Sydney University scholar explains how people can train their algorithms to get a better online experience and what it means to the Digital Duty of Care. Regular panellists…
- Care Package with Sarah Davies · 46 min · Episode 111The CEO of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation gives her verdict on the government’s new Digital Duty of care laws. Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea…
- Making Sausages with Kate Chaney · 51 min · Episode 110The independent MP on her community-driven plan for AI, working with government from the cross-bench and pushing the pace of reform. Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair…
- Perv Glass Half Full with Ed Santow · 49 min · Episode 109As 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…
- Duty of Care with Zoe Hawkins · 50 min · Episode 108The 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…
- Heaps Normal with Nicholas Davis · 46 min · Episode 107The 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…
- Mind Craft with Dr Miah Hammond-Errey · 50 min · Episode 106The 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…
- Roll Your Own with Beth Noveck · 50 min · Episode 105The 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…
- Fair AI at the ALP Conference 2026 - Burning Platforms LIVE · 1 h 0 min · Episode 104Burning Platforms is back for another live show, this time recorded at the 2026 ALP Conference in Adelaide where we launched the "FairAI Initiative" with Digital Rights Watch…
- Believe it or not: Navigating the Misinformation Age LIVE · 1 h 21 min · Episode 103In a world of relative facts and filter bubbles how do we build a common base of reality to anchor democracy?Burning Platforms will bring themes from the ABC series ‘A Matter of…
- The Palantir Primer · 1 h 2 min · Episode 102Burning Platform is back from its brief hiatus for a special live Virtual Town Hall, convened on July 6th, looking at the growing fight to resist the US tech behemoth, in…
- Little Voices with Clare Stutchbery · 54 min · Episode 101This week on Burning Platforms, we're joined by the head of the Local and Independent News Association, Clare Stutchbery, to get her insights on the importance of media diversity…
- BeNICE with Ed Coper · 1 h 7 min · Episode 100The political strategist and author of ‘Angertainement', Ed Coper, joins the Burning Platform this week to discuss how social media outrage ruined everything and outlines his…
- Magnifica Humanitas · 51 min · Episode 99This week on Burning Platforms we dive deep into Pope Leo’s XIV’s encyclical with Dr Michael Walker from the Justice and Peace Office at the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney . Our…
- Deep Tech with George Tulloch · 1 h 3 min · Episode 98The founder of start-up Noizend on the challenges of scaling tech in Australia and how the real innovation is not running on the back of LLMs. Regular panellists Digital Rights…
