Stop the World
Hosted by David Wroe · Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
4.4from 28 ratings
- 147
- Episodes
- 136
- Transcribed
- 28
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Stop the World
Everything seems to be accelerating: geopolitics, technology, security threats, the dispersal of information. At times, it feels like a blur. But beneath the dizzying proliferation of events, discoveries, there are deeper trends that can be grasped and understood through conversation and debate. That’s the idea behind Stop the World, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s podcast on international affairs and security. Each week, we cast a freeze-frame around the blur of events and bring some clarity and insight on defence, technology, cyber, geopolitics and foreign policy.
- Publisher
- Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Apr 2024
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
136 of 147 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Anthropic’s Jeff Bleich on AI safety and democracy
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
AI and cybersecurity with ASD Director-General Abi Bradshaw
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
OpenAI’s Ann O’Leary on AI guardrails, geopolitics and global governance
Inside a recent episode
Anthropic’s Jeff Bleich on AI safety and democracy
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Do you or will you need help to keep pace with the risks around these models? Do we need to bring government into the room? Yes, absolutely. I mean, I think Anthropic was formed as a company that was dedicated first and foremost to the safe and responsible deployment of AI technologies. And so that's been our guiding star. And we've been at times at odds with the industry because we've said there should be thoughtful and reasonable regulation. That doesn't mean regulate for the sake of regulating. But for example, we came out with a proposal that every company ought to have a safety plan. They ought to be transparent about what their safety plan is, and they ought to be notifying the government of issues that emerge as they work through their safety issues. […]
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- Jeff Bleich
- Abi Bradshaw
- Ann O’Leary
- Dr Andrew Charlton MP
- Justin Bassi
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 27 ratings
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- Quality
- 69
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 77
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Who hosts Stop the World?
David Wroe host the show. Published by Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).
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