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Video: Claude Mythos Is Mostly “Marketing Hype”
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“They’re convincing a lot of people that Mythos is this amazing step change in capability when the evidence right now… is that it might not be.”
Renowned security researcher and author of Rewiring Democracy Bruce Schneier tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound the noise and fear around Claude Mythos is mostly “marketing hype” and many other smaller AI models are just as capable.
Audio: Legislators, Do It! II
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Bruce Schneier was interviewed on Dataministeriet, a data protection and privacy podcast.
Audio: What’s Democracy Got to Do With AI?
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We chat with Bruce Schneier—renowned security technologist and, most recently, co-author of Rewiring Democracy—to discuss the relationship between technology and democracy. We get into how people with money/power use systems like AI to create a flywheel of more money/power. But importantly, as an advocate of public-interest technology, Bruce also lays out how AI is being used to empower citizens and strengthen democracy, and the techno-political conditions needed to build these democratic systems.
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Audio: Book Review: Rewiring Democracy
Artificial Intelligence is a constantly changing field, and it probably occupies a good chunk of real estate in your startup and technology news feed. In the past couple of years, I have had some moderate exposure to the field, utilizing several different generative AI systems like ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, and Gemini. I run the same query through multiple systems to see where each has blind spots and which answers questions best based on the field of inquiry. As the models change, the “best” generative AI system changes frequently. If you’re using one and the model updates, it never hurts to try the others…
Video: Is AI a Threat to Democracy? Bruce Schneier Explains What Comes Next
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Is artificial intelligence strengthening democracy or quietly reshaping power in ways we’re not prepared for?
On this episode of Digital Disruption, we’re joined by world-renowned security technologist and author Bruce Schneier.
Bruce joins Geoff to explore one of the most important questions: Will AI strengthen democracy or quietly undermine it? From government services and public policy to cybersecurity, labor, and the justice system, Bruce breaks down how artificial intelligence acts as a power-magnifying technology, amplifying both the best and worst intentions of those who use it. Drawing from real-world examples in Germany, Brazil, Japan, France, Canada, and the United States, this conversation examines where AI is already reshaping democratic institutions. He also outlines four concrete strategies for steering AI toward democratic outcomes: resisting harmful uses, reforming the AI ecosystem, responsibly deploying AI where it helps, and fixing the underlying societal problems AI tends to amplify…
Video: Bruce Schneier on Cybersecurity, AI, and Why Digital Security Now Shapes the World
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In this episode of the Question Everything Podcast with David Dye, David speaks with world-renowned cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier about the evolving role of digital security in modern society.
Bruce has spent decades studying cryptography, cybersecurity, and the intersection of technology and power. His work helped shape how experts and governments think about digital security.
In this conversation, Bruce explains how the internet evolved from a niche research network into critical infrastructure that now powers finance, communication, commerce, and politics…
AI Book Review: Rewiring Democracy
A clear-eyed look at how AI is already reshaping the machinery of democracy – and what it will take to keep power in public hands.
I spend a great deal of my time reading books on technology and artificial intelligence, not just as research for my work, but because I am genuinely curious about how power and responsibility are shifting in this new era. Some books focus on business efficiency, others on looming catastrophe.
Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship is interested in something more specific and, in many ways, more urgent: how AI is being woven into the everyday workings of democracy. Schneier and Sanders are not writing science fiction; they are mapping changes already underway, and asking whether citizens will shape these systems – or merely be shaped by them…
Audio: When AI Systems Meet Democratic Governance
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Bruce Schneier and Dr. Nathan E. Sanders discuss Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship (MIT Press).
Bruce and Nathan share how AI becomes viable for governments when the speed, scale, scope, and sophistication of computational systems surpasses human capacity. We also discuss the relationship between AI and the Internet of Things, how AI interacts with lobbying and legislation, and how values can be construed in an automated context. Current examples of AI implementation are shared from political campaigning, public administration, and civil society…
Beyond AI in Medicine’s Chatbot Hype
This article draws from an email interview with Mr. Schneier and his remarks at the 2025 T-CAIREM Conference: The Evolution of Generative A.I.
This academic year, the University of Toronto has been fortunate to have Bruce Schneier as a visiting senior policy fellow with the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI). Schneier is internationally renowned for his work as a public-interest technologist, cybersecurity expert, and New York Times best-selling author. We recently caught up with him to learn how he sees AI evolving, and especially how it could impact medicine in the future…
Audio: Rethinking AI for the Public Good
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What even is AI anyway, and how do we harness it for the good of the people? Host Emily talks technology and public power in this episode with Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders, authors of Rewiring Democracy: How AI will Transform our Politics, Government, and Citizenship. Find the book at your local library!
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.