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Audio: Bruce Schneier on AI as Democracy’s Power Magnifier
Artificial intelligence isn’t just a futuristic buzzword—it’s already reshaping politics, governance, and even citizenship.
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Artificial intelligence isn’t just a futuristic buzzword—it’s already reshaping politics, governance, and even citizenship. That’s the argument Bruce Schneier, one of the world’s foremost security technologists and author of the forthcoming Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship, makes in his conversation on the Campaign Trend Podcast.
Video: The Godfather of Security, Bruce Schneier, Rewires Democracy
Why America's Democracy Runs on 1776 Technology in a 2025 World and What To Do About It
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If Geoffrey Hinton is the Godfather of AI, then Bruce Schneier might be described as the Godfather of Security. A celebrated cryptographer and computer security expert, Schneier’s latest co-authored (with Nathan Sanders) book is entitled Rewiring Democracy and speculates on how AI might transform our politics, government and citizenship. American democracy, Schneier notes, runs on archaic 1776 technology in today’s digital 2025 world. Rather than fighting against AI then, he suggests, Americans should adapt this new technology to update how they do politics in the 21st century. But Schneier offers the crucial caveats that AI can neither solve fundamental human problems nor transcend ideology. “A value is just a bias we like,” he warns about the impossibility of a “valueless” AI system. While cautiously optimistic about AI’s potential to democratize power—from helping local politicians without resources to enabling mass citizen assemblies—he warns that without fixing underlying political and economic structures, AI will simply radically empower the already powerful. Trust the Godfather of Security on this one. AI might well turn out to be reassuringly less revolutionary than both its critics and supporters promise…
Video: Bruce Schneier Rewiring Democracy
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Video: Sign in Code Red – The Politics and Perils of Cybersecurity in the 21st Century
The digital revolution has transformed societies, economies and governance structures across the globe. Parallel to this transformation are a new set of challenges in terms of cybersecurity threats that are becoming increasingly complex, transitional and technologically sophisticated.
This also calls for an analysis of the implications of artificial intelligence in cyberattacks and how these developments are recalibrating traditional security paradigms. With the aim to explore the evolving tensions between individual privacy, collective security, and the push for government-mandated backdoors, this interview welcomes Mr. Bruce Schneier, a globally renowned authority on security technology and policy who brings unparalleled expertise to this conversation. His insights facilitate discussions on frameworks for integrating cybersecurity into national and international governance while generating action points for policymakers and industry leaders…
Schneier Tries to Rip the Rose-Colored AI Glasses from the Eyes of Congress
Security guru Bruce Schneier played the skunk at the garden party in a Thursday federal hearing on AI’s use in the government, focusing on the risks many are ignoring.
“The other speakers mostly talked about how cool AI was—and sometimes about how cool their own company was—but I was asked by the Democrats to specifically talk about DOGE and the risks of exfiltrating our data from government agencies and feeding it into AIs,” Schneier explained in a blog post.
DOGE stands for the Department of Government Efficiency. It’s a White House initiative, run until recently by centi-billionaire Elon Musk, that has been rifling through government databases and ordering layoffs at various government agencies in the name of cost savings and efficiency. Its staff cuts have been so extensive that the Trump administration reportedly …
Harvard’s Schneier Gives Lawmakers a Tour Through DOGE-Driven AI Risks
The Trump administration’s DOGE initiative to revamp federal systems and scale back the workforce has involved unvetted uses of artificial intelligence to comb through sensitive data and has exacerbated the government’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities, according to computer scientist, activist and Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Bruce Schneier.
“Data security breaches present significant dangers to everyone in the United States, from private citizens to corporations to government agencies to elected officials,” Schneier testified at a June 5 House Oversight hearing…
What Magic Johnson and Bruce Schneier Taught Us at RSAC 2025
At first glance, Bruce Schneier and Magic Johnson have about as much in common as a firewall and a fast break. But last week was the annual RSAC confab, where the agendas can read like someone spun a roulette wheel loaded with cyber policy, threat intel—and apparently, NBA legends.
Last Tuesday, Schneier delivered his keynote on “AI, Security, and Trust,” a cerebral clinic on why the tech world is barreling toward a cliff. On Wednesday, former Los Angeles Lakers point guard Earvin “Magic” Johnson took the stage with “The Art of the Assist,” where he served business wisdom with a side of charisma. It’s the kind of conference whiplash RSAC has perfected: one minute you’re deep in machine learning risk models, the next you’re in a standing ovation for a guy who redefined the no-look pass…
A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back (2023) by Bruce Schneier
Bottom Line:
Hall of Fame Candidate; I recommend this nonfiction book for the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame.
Review:
When we think of a hacker, we think of a person wearing a black hoodie with a skull logo on the front. That is because we associate hacking with criminals and technology. However, that is not always the case, according to Bruce Schneier. In his latest book, “A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back,” the author, a seasoned security professional, defies this common notion. Schneier explains that hacking does not have to be associated only with technology and criminals. He explains that whenever we bend rules or find loopholes in the system, we are hacking the system…
DOGE Is Putting the Country’s Data and Computing Infrastructure at Risk, HKS Expert Argues
Cyber security expert Bruce Schneier worries that DOGE’s access to highly sensitive information is giving bad actors a chance to take advantage.
Before the Trump administration took office, what has become known as DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, was touted as a tool for injecting private sector efficiencies into the federal workforce. Under the leadership of Elon Musk, DOGE has taken an unexpectedly radical tack—it has initiated mass layoffs and the wholesale shuttering of federal offices and agencies, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development. Perhaps less visible are the effects of DOGE’s unprecedent access to many highly sensitive federal databases and payment tools. Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and lecturer at the Kennedy School, wrote about this for The Atlantic and Foreign Policy. We spoke with him to learn more about the risks to federal data…
Nearly 10 Years After Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier Says: Privacy’s Still Screwed
“In 50 years, I think we'll view these business practices like we view sweatshops today”
It has been nearly a decade since famed cryptographer and privacy expert Bruce Schneier released the book Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World—an examination of how government agencies and tech giants exploit personal data. Today, his predictions feel eerily accurate.
At stake, he argued then, was a possibly irreversible loss of privacy, and the archiving of everything. As he wrote, science fiction author Charlie Stross described the situation as the “end of prehistory,” in that every facet of our lives would be on a computer somewhere and available to anyone who knew how to find them…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.