# Martin Franklin

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#157 AI pendulum - How Pope Leo, Trump and the Australian public have swung sentiment

This week we check in on what we've previously called the "AI pendulum" - the swing between a pro-safety, pro-regulation instinct that marked AI conversations a couple of years ago to the hands-off, innovation-first mindset dominating the last 12 months. Recent events indicate the pendulum may be s…

#158 Cyber breakout - What frontier AI means for cyber risk (part one)

*** This is the first part of a two-part series on how frontier AI is reshaping cyber risk. *** In recent months the cyber security industry has been grappling with a key question: how do highly capable frontier AI models change the threat environment? In this episode we break this question down b…

#159 Cyber breakout - What frontier AI means for cyber risk (part two)

*** This is part two of our two-part series on how frontier AI is reshaping cyber risk. See part one here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/158-cyber-breakout-what-frontier-ai-means-for-cyber/id1616386… *** Over recent weeks a wave of disclosures have lit up the technology industry about the p…

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#160 Much harm, but no foul? Breaking down the privacy regulator's Qantas data breach ruling

Typically, when we're discussing the lessons to be learned about a cyber or privacy incident, we’re working backwards from a negative ruling. In this episode, we discuss the OAIC's favourable ruling about Qantas' mid-2025 cyber-related data breach that affected millions of customers. While the OAIC…

#161 'Pub test for privacy' a step closer - breaking down Australia's new draft privacy laws

The Australian Government has announced plans for the next stage of reforms to Australia's Privacy Act. In this episode, we explain what changes are proposed in the exposure draft Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026, and what it means for organisations.In sum, the reforms represe…

#162 Pixelated privacy - the state of online tracking and advertising with Emma Blackmore

As the government finalises its tranche 2 reforms to the Privacy Act, the Privacy Commissioner is forging ahead with a crack-down on privacy-invasive online tracking and advertising. In this episode, Jordan sits down with Emma Blackmore to decode the OAIC's regulatory focus on 'pixels', what the re…

Social license and nuclear technologies, with Dr Cathy Moloney

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For the nuclear sector, social license as a term that applies to all things nuclear is a relatively new thing, but in discussions about AUKUS, it is one that is often discussed as something we ‘need to get’. But what that even mean for this context? And is social license even a useful thing to seek…

#163 Untangling AI risk - a simple breakdown of what we should worry about

The public conversation about AI risk has collapsed into a single story about rogue and super-intelligent AI posing an existential threat to humanity. This is not only anxiety-producing, but is crowding out a much more productive conversation about harms that are real and happening right now.In thi…

#164 Key to your data - Chandni Gupta on dark patterns in rent tech

Finding a home to rent is hard enough. But before you’ve even stepped through the door for an inspection, rent tech platforms may have nudged you into a paid rewards program, charged you for ID verification, and pressured you into paying to store your own data. In this episode, Arj speaks with Chan…