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Video: Why an AI Harness May Matter More Than the Latest Model
Technologist Bruce Schneier on Local Models, AI Harnesses and Corporate Power
Artificial intelligence models have grown highly capable of finding, exploiting and patching software vulnerabilities. But government controls and restricted access won’t contain those capabilities, said security technologist Bruce Schneier.
Schneier said security leaders should look beyond model brands and focus on the software harness surrounding each system. Harnesses manage prompts, outputs, context, guardrails and coordination among multiple models. They can also route tasks between expensive frontier models and cheaper local systems. This architecture may matter more than selecting one leading model…
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…
Video: AI, Democracy, and Human Cognition
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Listen to the Audio on Spotify.com
In this episode of AI in Action, Hannah Becker sits down with internationally renowned security technologist and author Bruce Schneier to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping democracy, governance, and society itself. Schneier challenges many of the common fears surrounding AI, arguing that “AI is like the steam engine” in the sense that it represents a transformative technological shift with far-reaching societal consequences. The conversation examines how AI is changing politics, public discourse, and democratic systems, including Schneier’s observation that “AI exacerbates existing problems in democracy.” He also introduces the idea that “AI is the first time we’ll have cognition at scale outside our bodies,” prompting a broader discussion about how artificial intelligence may fundamentally alter human decision-making, citizenship, and the relationship between people and technology…
Audio: We Try and Kill the Internet
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The internet is how you get your news, your paycheck, your groceries, your banking, and sometimes your drinking water. Humanity has quietly handed over the keys to civilization to a network most of us don’t understand and couldn’t rebuild. So what happens if it goes down—and not for a day or two?
Ben Bradford tries to kill the internet, hunting for weak points in undersea cables, cyberattacks, cloud computing, overlooked open-source plumbing, and fragile politics. It’s harder than it looks, but maybe not impossible. Should we be worried?…
Audio: Friction Is a Feature, an Interview with Bruce Schneier
A companion piece written by William Gao. Interview by Jessica Tang and Doga Baskan.
Listen to the Audio on Substack.com
Friction is a pillar of democracy. Selective friction nurtures pluralism, tempers the more radical impulses of governance, and demands deliberation from all who participate in the dialectic process of public decision-making. Technological innovations often reduce friction, though few have done so as rapidly or as broadly as artificial intelligence (AI). We already see large language models accelerating the pace and efficiency of communication, and autonomous systems executing decisions with an authority once reserved for humans…
Video: Bruce Schneier, Claude Mythos: “I Believe Mythos Is Both Real, and Marketing Bullsh*t.”
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In this interview, we’re joined by Bruce Schneier for a chat on Mythos. He’s one of the world’s leading cyber security experts known for his work in cryptography, AI security, and digital privacy. Over the past few decades, he’s advised governments, companies, and organizations on some of the biggest cyber security challenges shaping the modern world.
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…
Video: Exploring AI and Democracy, with Bruce Schneier
This event recording features Bruce Schneier, adjunct professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, who speaks about how rules can be exploited (and how AI will accelerate this), how over-automation risks weakening democracy, and how governments must respond with agile, ethical, and publicly accountable AI systems.
Audio: Public Interest Technology: Making Sense of Security in an AI World
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How should we think about security when many of the most important problems are not purely technical? Bruce Schneier joins us to discuss the challenge of communicating complex security ideas to non-technical audiences, the lasting relevance of security theater, and why psychology, economics, and governance often matter as much as code. We also explore artificial intelligence, manipulated media, cybercrime, regulation, and the growing need for people who can bridge the worlds of engineering, policy, and society…
Video: Claude Mythos Is Mostly “Marketing Hype”
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“They’re convincing a lot of people that Mythos is this amazing step change in capability when the evidence right now… is that it might not be.”
Renowned security researcher and author of Rewiring Democracy Bruce Schneier tells The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound the noise and fear around Claude Mythos is mostly “marketing hype” and many other smaller AI models are just as capable.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.