A Fireside Chat with Bruce Schneier

DEF CON 34 AI Village
August 22, 2026

Thanks again to Bruce Schneier for swinging by the AI Village to chat with both our staff and guests during DEFCON34. This talk was recorded on Saturday, August 8th, 2026, at the LVCC.

0:00 Intro
0:40 Host Questions
28:40 Encourage People to get into Public Interest Tech
31:05 AI Math Solving and Cyber Security
33:55 What do you think about Alignment Research?
36:38 How do we hold AI accountable?
38:28 How do we deal with legislators who don’t understand tech?
40:23 What problems do you think the industry is underestimating?
42:27 What do you do if strategy is useless?
44:10 Democratization of LLMs
45:45 What should Policy do?
48:34 AI Privacy vs Collective Good
53:14 Advice to the DoD
59:50 Closing Comments

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