Worth Knowing

A weekly podcast about the forces shaping politics, power and technology, and how they affect you.

Worth Knowing is a commentary podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 0 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #5

  Why the Australian Left Is Losing the Politics of Discontent | 05

  Aug 31, 202637 minS0

  <p>One Nation is rising because it understands something the Australian left seems unwilling to admit: the anger is real.</p><p>But if migrants, refugees and culture-war targets aren’t the cause of that anger, who benefits from pointing it at them?</p><p>Matt and Elliot follow the grievance from Australia’s hollowed-out political centre to two unlikely movements overseas, asking whether the left still remembers how to turn discontent into people power.</p><p>Because the system does feel rigged. The real question is who rigged it... and what it would take to build something else?</p><p>00...

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  Episode #4

  Big Tech’s Private State | 04

  Aug 24, 202629 minS0

  <p>Tech billionaires increasingly have access to the levers of power inside government, while they tighten their control over the channels we rely on to push back against that power and hold it to account.</p><p>This week, Elliot and Matt explore how Silicon Valley’s self-styled disruptors became part of the governing class - from Peter Thiel’s network inside the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE, to the unnamed algorithms who are the new editors-in-chief of our politics and culture.</p><p>What happens when the people inside government also control the public square? And if politi...

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  Episode #3

  Who owns Australia’s AI future? | 03

  Aug 17, 202628 minS0

  <p>Australia has spent decades digging things up, selling them overseas and buying the finished product back. </p><p>Are we about to do the same with AI? Supplying the minerals, land, energy, water and hosting servers while foreign companies own the intelligence?</p><p>Without a vision, and unless we start building, Australia risks becoming a subservient vassal state in the new AI economy.</p><p>In this episode, Elliot and Matt ask who really owns Australia’s AI future.</p><p>And one recent 76-hour glimpse of what happens when access is switched off shows just how much mig...

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  Episode #2

  Let them eat UBI | 02

  Aug 10, 202621 minS0

  <p>Universal Basic Income (UBI) is often served up as the neat solution to AI job disruption. Lose work, receive a payment, and everything will be OK.</p><p>In this episode, Elliot and Matt come at that promise from different positions. Elliot makes the optimistic case for the freedom UBI could unlock. Whereas Matt is more sceptical... especially of those who treat it as a silver bullet.</p><p>They explore the targeting problem and what a flat payment means for workers facing vastly different income losses. Then there is the big question: who pays, and how do we...

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  Is Australia hurtling towards an AI jobs cliff? | 01

  Aug 9, 202626 minS0

  <p>What happens if AI transforms work faster than Australia can adapt?</p><p>In the first episode of Worth Knowing, Matt and Elliot explore what AI job disruption could mean for Australian workers, and why the unemployment rate may not tell us the full story.</p><p>The Caldera Institute’s AI Work Cliff modelling stress-tests a scenario in which 20 per cent of Australia’s AI-exposed workforce experiences job loss, reduced hours or income downgrading. The result: 1.08 million workers affected and $48.9 billion in household income at risk each year.</p><p>Most may remain “technically employed”, even as their incomes...

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