The founder of Teach Us Consent on her campaign to give young people control over their social media feeds.

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Per Capita’s Peter Lewis and Cam Wilson from The Sizzle also delve into:

• The release of a new privacy code for children

• Anthropic’s push into Australia

• and Bernie Sanders' new bill for a moratorium on data centres

For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The Host of the ‘Computer Says Maybe’ podcast joins us to give a global take on the power and influence of Big Tech.

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also delve into:

• the federal government’s green data centre edict

• industry’s latest pitch to mine creative data

• and Open AI’s pivot away from consumer products

For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The Director of QUT’S Digital Media Research Centre outlines how different chatbots take users down different wormholes when they research conspiracy theories.

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea and The Sizzle’s Cam Wilson also dig into:

• How AI is creating new modes of death and destruction in Iran

• Why Pornhub is pulling out of Australia

• and Atlassian’s ironic jobs purge

For background notes on these discussions go to Burning Platforms on Substack: https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

The former Chief Scientist outlines his new venture, ‘Proudly Human to allow creators to verify their work in the ocean of slop.

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

• The Australian Government’s defence deals with Palantir

• Canadian PM Mark Carney’s call for a Middle Powers LLM

• and whether agentic AI will eat the internet

Visit www.percapita.org.au for more on our research and events.

Per Capita's podcasts are recorded and produced on Wurundjeri land.

The Burning Platforms panel kick around the carcass of this week when the White House went to war with AI, bosses found new ways to snoop on workers, and the market was moved by a bit of fan fiction.

Per Capita’s Peter Lewis joins Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and The Sizzle’s Cam Wilson try to make sense of the madness.

And some reading to get you warmed up:

Casey Newton - What is OpenAI going to do when the truth comes out? HTI - ‘Surveillance Creep’ Citrini - The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis Dan Kagan-Kans - The Left is missing Out on AI Brian Merchant - ‘Actually the Left is Winning the AI Debate'

On this week's episode of Burning Platforms, the team look at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi with first-hand accounts from UTS’s Human Technology Institute co-director and regular panelist Digital Rights Chair Lizzie O’Shea.

They join Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis to also discuss:

• Mark Zuckerberg’s day in court
• World-leading workplace laws in NSW
• and the SASSopcolypse.

Join us in discussing the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit: https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

Visit www.percapita.org.au for more on of the Centre of the Public Square's research and events.

Per Capita's podcasts are produced on Wurundjeri land.

Governments may campaign in poetry and govern in prose, but what about the engineering that keeps our democracy flowing? The pioneer of public innovation and Professor of Collective Intelligence at University College London, Sir Geoff Mulgan, believes it’s time to get the boring bits right.

Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

• Anthropic CEO Dario Ameida’s summer essay - https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology
• Should universities accept Big Tech dollars - https://www.science.org/content/article/nearly-third-social-media-research-has-undisclosed-ties-industry-preprint-claims
• and South Korea’s new AI Basic Act - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/29/south-korea-world-first-ai-regulation-laws.

If you want to hear more from Sir Geoff he will be speaking in Sydney on Feburary 25 https://anzsog.edu.au/events-connection/events/what-next-for-public-innovation-with-geoff-mulgan

Visit www.percapita.org.au for more on our research and events.

Per Capita's podcasts are recorded and produced on Wurundjeri land.

• Grok’s wild (and gross) summer
• ChatGTP’s foray into health
• and Bandcamp’s AI pledge

Join us in discussing the issues raised in this episode join us in the Democracy Sandpit: https://civility.bettermode.io/welcome

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