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How do we ensure technology makes our lives better? Tech Mirror is the podcast of the Tech Policy Design Institute. We explore how technolgy is shaping our lives, and how we - the humans- can shape technolgy back.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHow do we ensure technology makes our lives better? Tech Mirror is the podcast of the Tech Policy Design Institute. We explore how technolgy is shaping our lives, and how we - the humans- can shape technolgy back.
Tech Mirror is hosted by TPDi. The show has published 67 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "China’s AI Rulebook" (19 October 2026, 47 minutes), "Putting AI to Work for Australians" (21 September 2026, 52 minutes), and "OnlyFans" (7 September 2026, 49 minutes).
Tech Mirror publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 67 episodes.
Booking probability for Tech Mirror is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Tech Mirror requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Tech Mirror's contact route on record: verified email.
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TPDi hosts Tech Mirror, a technology podcast with 67 episodes published.
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Episode #17
China has been regulating artificial intelligence for years, challenging the assumption that technology is evolving too rapidly to regulate. As concerns grow over tech company accountability, what lessons (if any) can...
Episode #16
“I wanted to make a difference, and I wasn’t getting that fulfilment in the private sector anymore,” says Lee Hickin. After decades at some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and...
Episode #15
OnlyFans is often immediately recognised as an adult content platform. Yet, according to digital culture scholar Dr. Emily van der Nagel, the company sidesteps embracing the kinds of explicit material that define it...
Episode #14
Many believe that Artificial Intelligence will soon be embedded in nearly every aspect of the modern world. But how diverse are the people shaping this technology? In this episode of Tech Mirror, Johanna Weaver is...
Is Australia getting AI strategy right? Following the PM’s “AI In Australia’s Interests” speech on 15 July, much of the conversation has focused on data centres and ‘national standards’. But according to industrial AI...
Episode #12
What would it take for Australia to build its own AI future? The Australian Prime Minister made a landmark speech on 15 July declaring that his government would shape Artificial Intelligence rather than be shaped by it...
Episode #11
In a world of AI, what does it mean to be human? In this episode of Tech Mirror, host Johanna Weaver speaks with one of Australia’s foremost ethicists, Simon Longstaff, from the Ethics Centre. Together, they make the...
Episode #10
With countries and tech stakeholders rapidly moving to claim AI in their interest, such as the US government’s move to restrict non-citizens' access to platforms like Claude, what does it mean for Australians to have...
Episode #9
The nature of work and jobs is being reshaped by artificial intelligence. Is it the building block to a worker utopia, or a more bleak, disruptive reality? In this episode of Tech Mirror, host Johanna Weaver sits down...
Episode #8
Prepare to meet some amazing individuals who are using technology for social justice. This episode was recorded live at the Technology for Social Justice conference - Australia’s premier not-for-profit technology...
Episode #7
This episode marks the launch of TIPD's new research around AI, trust and regulation on 5 May in Parramatta. It begins with Johanna speaking with the Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy...
Episode #6
Johanna discusses Australia’s draft Children’s Online Privacy Code with Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind and Director of the Code Taskforce Kate Bower. They discuss how the proposed privacy code will work and...
Episode #5
Johanna looks at whether the past can give us clues about the future with Carl Benedikt Frey, Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and writer of How Progress Ends: Technology...
Episode #4
In the next deep dive into tech and geopolitics, Johanna Weaver sits down with Tim Coghlan, an Australia global tech and China economy analyst living in Beijing.They talk about geostrategic competition, from the...
Episode #3
In the first episode in a deep dive into tech and geopolitics, Johanna Weaver sits down with Martijn Rasser, Vice-President of Technology Leadership at the US Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP). The pair talk...
Episode #2
In this episode Johanna Weaver catches up with Jess Wilson, CEO of Good Things; David Masters, Head of Global Public Policy at Atlassian; Lizzie O’Shea, Chair of Digital Rights Watch; Nick Davis, Co-Director at...
Episode #1
To start off our new season of Tech Mirror, Johanna Weaver is join by her co-founder at the Tech Policy Design Institute, Zoe Hawkins, and the pair look forward into 2026 and take a punt on predicting the hot tech...
This is the final episode of TPDi’s 5-part Tech Mirror mini-series, Australia vs Social Media: I nside the world-first online safety experiment. In this episode, we turn our attention to the future, looking...
This is episode 4 of TPDi’s 5-part Tech Mirror mini-series, Australia vs Social Media: I nside the world-first online safety experiment. In this episode, we do a deep dive into the...
This is episode 3 of a 5-part Tech Mirror mini-series, Australia vs Social Media: I nside the world-first online safety experiment. In this episode, we make sense of the Social Media Minimum Age legislation, explaining...
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Philosopher | Officer of the Order of Australia | Adjunct Professor, UNSW Business School | Honorary Professor, Australian National University, The Ethics Centre
Australian Council of Trade Unions
Australian Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Australia's eSafety commissioner, Australia eSafety Commissioner
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