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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…
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…
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!
Audio: How is AI Shaping Democracy?
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As AI increasingly shapes geopolitics, elections, and civic life, its impact on democracy is becoming impossible to ignore. In this episode, Daniel and Chris are joined by security expert Bruce Schneier to explore how AI and technology are transforming democracy, governance, and citizenship. Drawing from his book Rewiring Democracy, they explore real examples of AI in elections, legislation, courts, and public AI models, the risks of concentrated power, and how these tools can both strengthen and strain democratic systems worldwide…
Audio: Rewiring Democracy & Hacking Trust: Bruce Schneier on the AI Offense-Defense Balance
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Topics covered:
- Do you believe that AI is going to end up being a net improvement for defenders or attackers? Is short term vs long term different?
- We’re excited about the new book you have coming out with your co-author Nathan Sanders, Rewiring Democracy. We want to ask the same question, but for society: do you think AI is going to end up helping the forces of liberal democracy, or the forces of corruption, illiberalism, and authoritarianism?
- If exploitation is always cheaper than patching (and attackers don’t follow as many rules and procedures), do we have a chance here?…
Audio: How AI Is Already Changing Our Political Campaigns
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Bruce Schneier appeared on Fox News Radio’s The Brian Kilmeade Show to talk about AI.
Audio: Bruce Schneier: Rewiring Democracy
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On this episode of the Plutopia News Network podcast, security technologist and author Bruce Schneier joins the hosts to discuss his new book Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship. Schneier frames democracy as an information-processing system that aggregates citizens’ preferences into policy, and defines AI broadly as computer systems doing tasks once done by humans. He argues that AI is fundamentally a power-amplifying tool: in the hands of small-d democrats it can strengthen participation, transparency, and decision-making, but in the hands of authoritarians or monopolistic tech corporations it can just as easily supercharge surveillance, manipulation, and control. Throughout the conversation, he emphasizes that many fears attributed to “AI itself” are really fears about capitalism, corporate power, and concentrated ownership of technology, and he offers real-world examples where AI is already helping journalism, courts, voters, and legislatures. Rather than utopian hype or doom, Schneier advocates a clear-eyed, politics-first view: AI’s impact on democracy will depend less on the technology and more on who controls it and how we choose to govern its use…
Video: Bruce Schneier on Democracy in the Context of Cryptography, Security, E-Voting, AI, Power and Trust
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Bruce Schneier is a well known cryptographer, security expert, and privacy advocate who deeply cares about society. Recent books like A Hacker’s Mind or Rewiring Democracy reflect his engagement in finding new perspectives of how democracy can be designed in better ways.
00:00 Introduction
01:36 Can cryptography keep us safe?
06:18 Electronic voting
11:56 Trust
17:13 Democracy
20:27 Technology
23:06 Citizens’ assemblies
26:36 Direct democracy
27:04 Online vs. electronic voting…
Audio: Artificial Intelligence and You
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How should AI change democracy? That’s the topic of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, and I am talking today with its authors.
We talk about this fascinating and scary intersection of AI and government, of AI being used in making legislation, the concept of democracy as an information system, ways AI can transform how citizens engage their governments, regulatory responses to AI from the US and around the world, and how the judicial branch can use AI.
Audio: AI for the Public Interest: Bruce Schneier
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We discuss how AI can both serve the public interest and advance the goals of our democracy, despite the misgivings about the current state of AI.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.