AI and the Rise of Bulk Spying

In the first episode of Not Dead Yet, Robert Baggs speaks with Bruce Schneier, a New York Times bestseller and security technologist.

00:00 Intro

02:43 The world since the Snowden leak

05:04 What’s worse for privacy, Big Tech or government agencies?

07:19 Surveillance capitalism and the horrors of AI

09:34 How powerful is data?

13:07 The tracking device in your pocket

15:34 The Le Monde investigation

17:10 The rise of bulk spying

19:03 The danger of AI in surveillance

21:52 Should personalized ads be illegal?

23:05 Is AI the biggest current threat to privacy?

23:43 What can we do to preserve our privacy?

25:35 Should privacy be a political issue?

27:38 Not all data is equal

28:47 If you’ve got nothing to hide, why do you care?

30:41 Are we doomed to slip into a dystopian world?

34:14 AI and the rewiring of democracy