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Agentic AI Could Improve Everything or Cascade into Doom

  • Gideon Lichfield
  • Bloomberg
  • November 24, 2025

After days of chaos, hundreds of deaths and trillions of dollars wiped off stock markets, the Great Agentic Cascade of July 2028 turned out to have begun much like the great internet outages of October and November 2025: with a minor bug at a major provider on which many of the world’s biggest internet services depended to manage their traffic. But in the intervening three years, the world had gone all-in on agentic AI—systems that can make and carry out decisions without human intervention. Many internet companies had created AI agents that automatically spun up servers at alternative cloud firms when their main service went down. That was their, and the world’s, undoing…

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Video: After Capitalism, After Democracy

  • Wes and Dylan and Dylan Curious
  • November 20, 2025

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Bruce Schneier appeared on the Wes and Dylan YouTube channel.

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AI Has a Democracy Problem—Here’s Why

A thorough examination of artificial intelligence’s promise in politics rests on a thorny premise: democracy is an information system.

  • Virginia Eubanks
  • Nature
  • November 18, 2025

Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders MIT Press (2025)

The tsunami of writing on artificial intelligence tends towards either bald hype or panicked dystopianism. Proponents say that AI will revolutionize health care, drive business growth and become our new best friend. But for its critics, AI could cause massive unemployment, perpetuate fake news and pose an extinction risk to humankind.

In Rewiring Democracy, cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier and data scientist Nathan Sanders offer a welcome middle path by focusing on practical politics. In a heartfelt, if workmanlike, way, they craft a framework for maximizing the democratic potential of AI. Yet, by shrinking and distorting the vexing political challenges that the world faces today to fit a single solution—AI—they short-change the frustrating glories of living together as human beings…

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Ben’s Book of the Month: Rewiring Democracy

  • Ben Rothke
  • RSA Conference
  • November 4, 2025

At the Infosec World 2025 conference last week, AI dominated discussions and vendor displays. One sparsely attended speaker joked that including AI in the title of his talk would have drawn a larger crowd.

When I heard about Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship (MIT Press) by Bruce Schneier and Dr. Nathan Sanders, I expected a harsh critique of AI’s impact on democracy, but the book instead presents a nuanced thesis on how AI will transform, rather than simply threaten, our political systems…

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Video: Bruce Schneier Talks AI, Trust, and the Power of Community with RSAC

  • RSA Conference
  • November 3, 2025

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In this exclusive interview with RSAC’s Britta Glade, cybersecurity expert and author Bruce Schneier explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the principles of confidentiality, fairness, and integrity. He also shares how the RSAC™ Membership Platform can help professionals stay connected, exchange real-time insights, and navigate the evolving landscape of AI and cybersecurity together.

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Audio: AI for the Public Interest: Bruce Schneier

  • Future Hindsight
  • October 30, 2025

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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.

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SRI Appoints Bruce Schneier as Visiting Senior Policy Fellow

‍Global security expert Bruce Schneier joins University of Toronto’s Munk School and the Schwartz Reisman Institute as a visiting fellow to tackle one of today’s defining questions: how can we build AI systems—and societies—that people can truly trust?

  • Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Policy
  • October 28, 2025

Few thinkers have done more to reframe how we understand security in a networked world than Bruce Schneier. To him, security isn’t just about cryptography or code—it’s about trust, power, and the human choices embedded in every system we build.

For three decades, Schneier has asked what it really means to be secure, and who gets to decide. From designing cryptographic algorithms to writing bestselling books that redefined public conversations on privacy and power, the Harvard-based security expert has become one of the world’s most trusted interpreters of how technology shapes society…

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Audio: Rewiring Democracy with Godfather of Cybersecurity and Public Interest Technologist, Bruce Schneier

  • Humans in the Loop
  • October 28, 2025

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This episode features an OG in the world of internet security, the Godfather of Cybersecurity, Bruce Schneier. Bruce describes himself as a public interest technologist, and has done many things under that banner—run companies, lectured at Harvard, testified before Congress, authored over a dozen books, and written a blog for over 20 years that has more than 250k regular readers—to name just a few.

Key topics:

  • The need for better technical minds in policy making
  • The implications of AI for democracy (not as bleak as you might expect…
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Video: The Brian Kilmeade Show

  • Fox News Radio
  • October 24, 2025

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Bruce Schneier appeared on Fox News Radio’s The Brian Kilmeade Show to talk about his new book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship. The interview starts at 49:20 in the video.

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Tech Experts See Artificial Intelligence as a Key Resource Ahead of Local Elections

  • Maya Y. Fu, Helia M. Hung, and Adelaide L.D. Roger
  • The Harvard Crimson
  • October 23, 2025

Cambridge’s local elections are just around the corner—and scientists Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders said that artificial intelligence will be a critical tool to help inform voters before they head to the polls.

Schneier and Sanders, a Harvard Kennedy School lecturer, co-authored the book "Rewiring Democracy" that was released on Oct. 21. The two appeared at a Cambridge Public Library panel to share more about how citizens can use AI to get involved in politics on Wednesday evening.

They noted that Cambridge’s municipal elections on Nov. 4 are a prime opportunity for voters to use AI. With the most crowded field of candidates in recent memory, Schneier—a New York Times bestselling author—said the technology can be used to help summarize information about candidates…

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