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Video: Author of Rewiring Democracy Discusses How AI Combined with Algorithms Might Destabilize Democracy
Bruce Schneier appeared on the podcast Bannon’s War Room to talk about his new book Rewiring Democracy.
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…
Closing the Year With the Books That Framed the Future
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As the year winds down, it feels like the right moment to look at the ideas that have influenced discussions about technology, leadership, and the changing demands on modern organizations.
The books in this roundup approach these themes in different ways.
Some explore how AI is used in real work, while others examine cybersecurity and the decisions that shape team environments.
Together, they offer a useful set of perspectives for anyone curious about the forces guiding the next stage of work and society.
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Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship…
Book Review: Rewiring Democracy Offers a Nuanced Examination of AI’s Impact on Our Civic and Social Fabric
Readers need not be computer science graduates to understand the critical points being made. The result is a book that speaks to policymakers, civic technologists, and public servants without burying them in jargon.
Artificial intelligence has become perhaps the top buzzword of the decade. It has become impossible to walk a block without hearing an ad, seeing a sign on a bus, or eavesdropping into a conversation without noting the presence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, or an offering from a Silicon Valley startup.
Evident in the latest round of layoffs in greater Seattle, eager Big Tech executives are plowing ahead on a dangerous course they’ve charted. It is exhausting to find ourselves, once again, being sold every moment of our lives by a faceless corporation…
How AI Could Save Democracy Instead of Destroying It
Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders are asking the right question in their new book Rewiring Democracy: not whether AI will change politics, but how we can shape that change. The cybersecurity expert (behind Data and Goliath) and data scientist tackle something most AI discussions skip entirely—the nitty-gritty of democratic governance.
Their timing couldn’t be better. AI is already being used to draft legislation, analyze court documents, and run local political campaigns (most politics happens at low budgets, they point out, where AI tools can level the playing field for first-time candidates). The authors argue that AI amplifies power—and the crucial question is whose power gets amplified…
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…
Video: Deepfakes, Misinformation & More: How AI Is Rewiring Politics
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Nathan Sanders & Bruce Schneier, coauthors of Rewiring Democracy, join Susan Demas to talk about how AI and digital systems, as they currently operate, are destroying our democracy. But they also come with answers for how to fix it.
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.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.