Rewiring Democracy & Hacking Trust: Bruce Schneier on the AI Offense-Defense Balance

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Topics covered:

  • Do you believe that AI is going to end up being a net improvement for defenders or attackers?  Is short term vs long term different?
  • We’re excited about the new book you have coming out with your co-author Nathan SandersRewiring Democracy.  We want to ask the same question, but for society: do you think AI is going to end up helping the forces of liberal democracy, or the forces of corruption, illiberalism, and authoritarianism?
  • If exploitation is always cheaper than patching (and attackers don’t follow as many rules and procedures), do we have a chance here?
  • If this requires pervasive and fast “humanless” automatic patching (kinda like what Chrome does for years), will this ever work for most organizations?
  • Do defenders have to do the same and just discover and fix issues faster? Or can we use AI somehow differently?
  • Does this make defense in depth more important?
  • How do you see AI as changing how society develops and maintains trust?

Categories: Audio, Recorded Interviews

Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.