How do you stop being addicted to your phone?

2026-06-26

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If your phone seems impossible to put down, that's because it's intentional. So how can we break our addictions?Also on the show, how safe is online voting? With our traditional political system in a bit of a chaotic state at the moment, it's safe to say we're lacking trust in our politicians. But Australians are still very trusting in our electoral processes. Will changing to online voting jeopardise that?And, more Australian artists have identified they have been caught up in AI model training without permission. And...

If your phone seems impossible to put down, that's because it's intentional. So how can we break our addictions?

Also on the show, how safe is online voting? With our traditional political system in a bit of a chaotic state at the moment, it's safe to say we're lacking trust in our politicians. But Australians are still very trusting in our electoral processes. Will changing to online voting jeopardise that?

And, more Australian artists have identified they have been caught up in AI model training without permission. And they're not happy about it! Cate Blanchett has just launched the Human Consent Registry as one way to combat this. Is there an end in sight?

GUESTS:

Professor Vanessa Teague, CEO of Thinking Cybersecurity and Adjunct Professor at UNSW.
Professor Michael Cowling, Professor of Educational Technology at RMIT aka Professor Tech.

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