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Video: Bruce Schneier on Democracy in the Context of Cryptography, Security, E-Voting, AI, Power and Trust

  • Democracy Innovators Podcast
  • November 26, 2025

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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…

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Video: Deepfakes, Misinformation & More: How AI Is Rewiring Politics

  • Lincoln Square Media
  • November 25, 2025

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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.

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Audio: Artificial Intelligence and You

  • AI and You
  • November 24, 2025

Listen to Part 1 on AIandYou.net

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.

Listen to Part 2 on AIandYou.net…

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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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Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.