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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.
He was referencing …
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…
Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship
Robert Diab
This book makes an incisive and technically informed contribution to a rapidly growing body of work on AI and politics. Its central chapters survey the tangible ways AI will alter democratic practices, including political campaigning, lawmaking, administration, and legal judgment. The book is framed by the authors’ conception of democracy as “an information system that translates individual preferences into group policy decisions” (p.27), a system that can be optimized through effective use of AI. This conception has its merits, but it underplays democracy as a normative order structured by constitutional limits, institutional friction, public reasoning, and commitments to political equality—and leads the authors, in places, to understate AI’s potential impact on some of its most important dimensions…
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…
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…
Rewiring Democracy: “Citizen Acceptance and Trust in AI Matters as Much as AI Capabilities”
The core message of this book is succinctly captured in one sentence on page 100: “citizen acceptance and trust in AI matters as much as AI capabilities”. There is a lot more covered in Rewiring Democracy that sits behind this statement—the fact that much of our acceptance of artificial intelligence is unwilling or unwitting, and the universal truth that trust is hard won and easily lost.
There are widely opposing views of AI across the political spectrum, and how it will be applied in Irish society. While some see it as a boost for Ireland’s competitiveness, others have concerns about …
How Artificial Intelligence Is Rewiring Democracy
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Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders (MIT Press, 2025)
Can an artificial intelligence model run for mayor? In 2024, a Cheyenne, Wyoming, mayoral candidate tried to make that case when he pledged that if he were elected, he’d outsource all decisions to an AI. He came in a distant fourth, earning only 3 percent of the vote.
But that (to my mind, rather dystopian) example explored in Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship…
Algorithmic Optimism, Democratic Reality
A review of Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship (The MIT Press, 2025).
It is telling that when admitted artificial intelligence (AI) optimists write a book about how AI can have a significant positive impact on democracy, they want their readers to know they did not use AI to help them write their book. That is exactly what Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders do in Rewiring Democracy: “While we see many useful applications of AI, we wrote this book ourselves. All the ideas and words are our own or stemming from those we have cited or acknowledged.” It’s a revealing disclaimer. If AI holds as much promise to enhance productivity, creativity, and fairness as the authors insist, why not enlist it in the act of authorship? Implicitly, Schneier and Sanders’s disclaimer suggests that despite AI’s speed and scope, there remains something distinctly human—perhaps even superior—about thought unassisted by AI…
The Best Information Security Books of 2025
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As the year ends, here is my list of the Best Information Security Books of 2025.
Information security book of the year—Rewiring Democracy
The Gartner Hype Cycle is a graphical model that represents the maturity, adoption, and social application of specific technologies. It has five phases: innovation trigger, peak of inflated expectations, trough of disillusionment, slope of enlightenment, and plateau of productivity. It is designed to help organizations assess the potential risks and benefits of new technologies.
When it comes to hype, nothing compares to AI. Yet even with all the hype, there is still immeasurable value. In …
AI Is a Power Amplifier. The Future Depends on Who Turns the Dials.
In “Rewiring Democracy,” Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders explore how AI could strengthen democracy or undermine it.
Key Takeaways
- AI’s impact on democracy depends less on the technology itself and more on how people choose to apply it.
- Schneier and Sanders argue that governments and citizens must demand responsible uses of AI that enhance speed, fairness, and accessibility in public systems.
- Without strong, activity-based regulation and public alternatives, AI risks concentrating political power and accelerating authoritarian tendencies.
You’d be forgiven for thinking AI represents a classic Faustian bargain, as every reported blessing seems tied to a sinister curse…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.