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.

Burning Platforms is a technology podcast hosted by Per Capita Australia, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Per Capita Australia hosts Burning Platforms, a technology show with 100 episodes published.

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  Episode #107

  Heaps Normal with Nicholas Davis

  Aug 19, 202646 min

  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/

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  Episode #106

  Mind Craft with Dr Miah Hammond-Errey

  Aug 12, 202650 min

  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/

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  Episode #105

  Roll Your Own with Beth Noveck

  Aug 5, 202650 min

  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/

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  Episode #103

  Believe it or not: Navigating the Misinformation Age LIVE

  Jul 29, 20261h 21m

  In 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 Facts’ to life in a fun and interactive live event that will challenge you to pick the truth from the lies. Featuring: Hamish Macdonald, award-winning journalist Lizzie O’Shea, Co-founder and Chair of Digital Rights Watch Jess Scully, Executive Director of RadicalXChange Emma McDonald, Media Lawyer, policy, regulatory and communications executive Professor Leo Robba and social design students from Western Sydney University Hosted by Essential’s Peter Lewis, and supported by Democracy Counts, we’ll explore what it means for democracy when so much of the content we’re consuming blurs the lines between fact and fiction, when our shared sense of reality becomes fractured.

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  Episode #102

  The Palantir Primer

  Jul 7, 20261h 3m

  Burning 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 partnership with Digital Rights Watch and GetUp! Hosted by Per Capita's Peter Lewis, with speakers: * DRW chair Lizzie O'Shea * GetUp! campaigner Hayden Rodgers * Australian Greens Senator David Shoebridge Show notes available at: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/your-palantir-primer

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