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Video: How AI Is Reshaping Democracy: Insights from Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders
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How is AI fundamentally changing democracy? In this episode of the Better Politics Podcast, host Lisa Witter is joined by Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders, authors of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, where they examine the ways that AI is transforming every aspect of democracy, for better and worse.
Bruce is a public interest technologist and lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School who has advised governments and civil society organizations for decades. Nathan is a Berkman Klein Fellow at Harvard University who studies the infrastructure of democratic participation. Together they trace how AI is already reshaping lawmaking, judicial reasoning, campaigns, and constituent communication…
Harvard’s Schneier Praises UK AISI’s Evaluation of Frontier AI’s Cyber Capabilities
The United Kingdom’s Artificial Intelligence Security Institute is taking on a crucial task of assessing the cyber capabilities of the leading AI models and appropriately learning from their mistakes, in work that is fundamentally difficult given the technology’s trouble understanding context, according to public interest technologist Bruce Schneier.
“I think their ‘lessons for the future’ are good. This is a good group, and they’re trying to think these things through, so that’s kind of neat,” Schneier told Inside AI Policy.
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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…
Video: Most AI Problems Are Really Capitalism Problems
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Bruce Schneier joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about hacking, power, and why so much of what gets blamed on AI might actually be something else.
Schneier is one of the most well-known and respected names in cybersecurity. He has been working in and writing about cybersecurity since the term was invented, writing more than a dozen books in that time. Data and Goliath looked at surveillance. A Hacker’s Mind looked at loopholes in the rules we all live by. His most recent book turns that same thinking toward AI and democracy…
Video: Why an AI Harness May Matter More Than the Latest Model
Technologist Bruce Schneier on Local Models, AI Harnesses and Corporate Power
Artificial intelligence models have grown highly capable of finding, exploiting and patching software vulnerabilities. But government controls and restricted access won’t contain those capabilities, said security technologist Bruce Schneier.
Schneier said security leaders should look beyond model brands and focus on the software harness surrounding each system. Harnesses manage prompts, outputs, context, guardrails and coordination among multiple models. They can also route tasks between expensive frontier models and cheaper local systems. This architecture may matter more than selecting one leading model…
Bruce Schneier: Don’t Entrust Your Secrets to AI
It behaves like a human, talks like a human, and sometimes even appears like one—but it is not human. During his visit to Prague, we spoke with Bruce Schneier, one of the world's leading cybersecurity experts, about trust, responsible AI and the relationship between new technologies and power.
Not even the sweltering heat could keep developers, researchers, journalists, students, professionals and enthusiasts in AI and cybersecurity from filling the main hall of Prague’s Opero centre at the end of June.
Together with AISLE, we hosted a meetup with security expert and cryptographer Bruce Schneier, who—in conversation with AISLE’s co-founder Jaya Baloo—addressed topics such as a proactive security approach, responsible software development, AI regulation, and the fight against cyberattacks.
We then followed up on this discussion with Bruce in an interview for prg.ai, in which he further elaborated on the issue of trust in artificial intelligence, as well as the relationship between people and new technologies, democracy and power, and the development of new systems in Europe and the Czech Republic…
Video: AI, Democracy, and Human Cognition
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In this episode of AI in Action, Hannah Becker sits down with internationally renowned security technologist and author Bruce Schneier to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping democracy, governance, and society itself. Schneier challenges many of the common fears surrounding AI, arguing that “AI is like the steam engine” in the sense that it represents a transformative technological shift with far-reaching societal consequences. The conversation examines how AI is changing politics, public discourse, and democratic systems, including Schneier’s observation that “AI exacerbates existing problems in democracy.” He also introduces the idea that “AI is the first time we’ll have cognition at scale outside our bodies,” prompting a broader discussion about how artificial intelligence may fundamentally alter human decision-making, citizenship, and the relationship between people and technology…
Audio: We Try and Kill the Internet
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The internet is how you get your news, your paycheck, your groceries, your banking, and sometimes your drinking water. Humanity has quietly handed over the keys to civilization to a network most of us don’t understand and couldn’t rebuild. So what happens if it goes down—and not for a day or two?
Ben Bradford tries to kill the internet, hunting for weak points in undersea cables, cyberattacks, cloud computing, overlooked open-source plumbing, and fragile politics. It’s harder than it looks, but maybe not impossible. Should we be worried?…
Audio: Friction Is a Feature, an Interview with Bruce Schneier
A companion piece written by William Gao. Interview by Jessica Tang and Doga Baskan.
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Friction is a pillar of democracy. Selective friction nurtures pluralism, tempers the more radical impulses of governance, and demands deliberation from all who participate in the dialectic process of public decision-making. Technological innovations often reduce friction, though few have done so as rapidly or as broadly as artificial intelligence (AI). We already see large language models accelerating the pace and efficiency of communication, and autonomous systems executing decisions with an authority once reserved for humans…
Video: Bruce Schneier, Claude Mythos: “I Believe Mythos Is Both Real, and Marketing Bullsh*t.”
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In this interview, we’re joined by Bruce Schneier for a chat on Mythos. He’s one of the world’s leading cyber security experts known for his work in cryptography, AI security, and digital privacy. Over the past few decades, he’s advised governments, companies, and organizations on some of the biggest cyber security challenges shaping the modern world.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.