As researchers are locked out of digital platforms, we contemplate a new era of control and secrecy, with responsible tech academic Gina Neff.

She joins our panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie OShea, Choice’s digital campaign lead Rafi Alam and Peter Lewis from Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

Also this week: The Social Media Summit takeaways The eyes inside our cars And the Nobel Prize’s AI extravaganza

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Open AI's Sam Altman has launched a new product line with a new business model and a new philosophy. But do they all line up?

Lee Schofield from ‘Future is Now’ with our regular panelists Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea and Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton.

We also cover

· The fallout from 7-Eleven’s privacy breach

· Misinformation and disinformation laws

· And Mark Zuckerberg’s new Metaverse glasses.

Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

Listen to our live virtual town hall briefing to discuss the Federal Government’s much anticipated plans for privacy reform and the launch o the Privacy Now campaign - https://privacynow.org.au/.

With:

• Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind

• Human Technology Institute director Ed Santow

• Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea

• The arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov
• Musicians count the cost of AI; and
• What next for the News Media Bargaining Code?

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 and platform responsibility * Musk’s X-rated presidential dalliance * and the People’s bid for TiKTok

Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

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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 Institute of Sustainable Futures has been crunching the numbers and it makes for alarming reading.

He joins our regular panel of Digital Rights Watch chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Centre of the Public Square convenor Peter Lewis.

Also this week:

• Has the US Supreme Court just granted Big Tech a giant leave pass?
• Why is Google still addicted to Cookies?
• And could Mark Zuckerberg by right, for once

Burning Platforms is an initiative of Per Capita’s Centre of the Public Square.

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