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Harvard’s Schneier Gives Lawmakers a Tour Through DOGE-Driven AI Risks
The Trump administration’s DOGE initiative to revamp federal systems and scale back the workforce has involved unvetted uses of artificial intelligence to comb through sensitive data and has exacerbated the government’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities, according to computer scientist, activist and Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Bruce Schneier.
“Data security breaches present significant dangers to everyone in the United States, from private citizens to corporations to government agencies to elected officials,” Schneier testified at a June 5 House Oversight hearing…
Harvard Technologist Encourages Use of AI to Protect Democracy
Exploring ways in which generative artificial intelligence will affect democracy, prominent Harvard lecturer and public-interest technologist Bruce Schneier said it’s important for people to look both ways and to be unafraid of using the technology when it can help.
Schneier said he foresees an “arms race” where those who fail to engage with the technology will quickly lose ground to those who do. He offered examples of how AI can be used throughout the democratic process, including to augment polling, fundraising and campaign strategies in electoral politics, and to more routinely submit comments to regulatory agencies, craft legislation, and improve law enforcement…
Leading Public-Interest Technologist Sees National Research Resource as a Potential Foundation for an “AI Public Option”
As a chorus of transatlantic public interest groups calls for governments to build their own bedrock artificial intelligence systems, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Bruce Schneier says the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource backed by key U.S. policymakers could lay the necessary groundwork.
"It’s a start, and [could] serve as a foundation for an AI Public Option," Schneier told Inside AI Policy referring to the NAIRR, a pilot for which is included in the Oct. 30 executive order on artificial intelligence.
The NAIRR has also been highlighted in a series of closed-door AI "insight forums" hosted by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) who has said there was agreement with top Republicans to spend …
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.