
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 Institu...
5 Aug 202458min

Rebuilding the Public Square - Live
On this week’s Burning Platforms, Peter Lewis launches the “Civility Manifesto” live at the July John Cain Lunch. Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square. ...
22 Juli 202458min

Man-Made
On this week’s Burning Platforms, we talk with author Tracey Spicer about the biases and contradictions at the heart of Artificial Intelligence. Our panel of Essential’s Peter Lewis, Digital Rights ...
9 Juli 202457min

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 Digital...
24 Juni 202456min

Invisible Bystanders
This week on Burning Platforms, our regular panel of Essential's Peter Lewis, Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, and HealthEngine CEO Dan Stinton, are joined by Professor Nicholas Davis from UT...
11 Juni 20241h

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 h...
27 Maj 20241h 2min

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 ...
13 Maj 202457min

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 t...
30 Apr 20241h 12min




















