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God in a Box with Toby Walsh

October 27, 2026 · 43 min

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The 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 Policy Design Institute co-director Zoe Jay Hawkins and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:

  • the ad-powered cyber-attacks on Australian institutions
  • the Digital Duty of Care laws enter the Parliament
  • Meta’s new terms of trade and plans for AI domination

For show notes go to https://burningplatforms.substack.com/

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