Physicist & best-selling author Professor Brian Greene thinks we are on the brink of a new frontier, a digital landscape utterly transformed by AI.

Cathy Foley is Australia's Chief Scientist. She says AI is an opportunity for Australia and rather than “look on in wonder … we can be in the game”.

Author & Editor at Mamamia Jessie Stephens unpacked the Princess Kate Photoshop drama on her Out Loud podcast, sharing her concern that AI and deepfakes could destroy our shared reality. 

Former Army major general Gus McLachlan explores the role of AI and VR in defence. He believes that this technology could be the next stage of information warfare. 

Nadia Lee is a start-up entrepreneur turned campaigner against deepfakes and digital exploitation. She says AI is now “the most important problem facing humanity”.

Aidan Nguyen asked: Intergenerational equity - the idea that we can leave behind promises and opportunities that are as good if not better for the next generation than the previous.
 

It feels like it is fundamentally under threat from the way our current economic system has been set-up, particularly with how we've designed our property and income incentives. Does the panel agree, and if so, what needs to change?

In the first of an occasional series of Australian Story specials, Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett sits down for an intimate and wide-ranging conversation with Leigh Sales. The activist, singer and former politician, who turned 70 last year, looks back over the highs and lows and of a life well lived. 
 

Watch Australian Story on Monday at 8pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.