News in the Category "Recorded Interviews"

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Video: Claude Mythos Is Mostly “Marketing Hype”

  • The Tech Report
  • April 9, 2026

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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.

Audio: Legislators, Do It! II

  • Dataministeriet
  • March 18, 2026

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Bruce Schneier was interviewed on Dataministeriet, a data protection and privacy podcast.

Audio: What’s Democracy Got to Do With AI?

  • This Machine Kills
  • February 19, 2026

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We chat with Bruce Schneier—renowned security technologist and, most recently, co-author of Rewiring Democracy—to discuss the relationship between technology and democracy. We get into how people with money/power use systems like AI to create a flywheel of more money/power. But importantly, as an advocate of public-interest technology, Bruce also lays out how AI is being used to empower citizens and strengthen democracy, and the techno-political conditions needed to build these democratic systems.

Video: Is AI a Threat to Democracy? Bruce Schneier Explains What Comes Next

  • Digital Disruption
  • February 9, 2026

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Is artificial intelligence strengthening democracy or quietly reshaping power in ways we’re not prepared for?

On this episode of Digital Disruption, we’re joined by world-renowned security technologist and author Bruce Schneier.

Bruce joins Geoff to explore one of the most important questions: Will AI strengthen democracy or quietly undermine it? From government services and public policy to cybersecurity, labor, and the justice system, Bruce breaks down how artificial intelligence acts as a power-magnifying technology, amplifying both the best and worst intentions of those who use it. Drawing from real-world examples in Germany, Brazil, Japan, France, Canada, and the United States, this conversation examines where AI is already reshaping democratic institutions. He also outlines four concrete strategies for steering AI toward democratic outcomes: resisting harmful uses, reforming the AI ecosystem, responsibly deploying AI where it helps, and fixing the underlying societal problems AI tends to amplify…

Video: Bruce Schneier on Cybersecurity, AI, and Why Digital Security Now Shapes the World

  • Question Everything
  • February 2, 2026

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In this episode of the Question Everything Podcast with David Dye, David speaks with world-renowned cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier about the evolving role of digital security in modern society.

Bruce has spent decades studying cryptography, cybersecurity, and the intersection of technology and power. His work helped shape how experts and governments think about digital security.

In this conversation, Bruce explains how the internet evolved from a niche research network into critical infrastructure that now powers finance, communication, commerce, and politics…

Audio: When AI Systems Meet Democratic Governance

  • Social Media & Politics
  • January 31, 2026

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

Bruce and Nathan share how AI becomes viable for governments when the speed, scale, scope, and sophistication of computational systems surpasses human capacity. We also discuss the relationship between AI and the Internet of Things, how AI interacts with lobbying and legislation, and how values can be construed in an automated context. Current examples of AI implementation are shared from political campaigning, public administration, and civil society…

Audio: Rethinking AI for the Public Good

  • Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast
  • January 27, 2026

Listen to the Audio on OverdueingIt.org

What even is AI anyway, and how do we harness it for the good of the people? Host Emily talks technology and public power in this episode with Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders, authors of Rewiring Democracy: How AI will Transform our Politics, Government, and Citizenship. Find the book at your local library!

Audio: How is AI Shaping Democracy?

  • Practical AI
  • January 27, 2026

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As AI increasingly shapes geopolitics, elections, and civic life, its impact on democracy is becoming impossible to ignore. In this episode, Daniel and Chris are joined by security expert Bruce Schneier to explore how AI and technology are transforming democracy, governance, and citizenship. Drawing from his book Rewiring Democracy, they explore real examples of AI in elections, legislation, courts, and public AI models, the risks of concentrated power, and how these tools can both strengthen and strain democratic systems worldwide…

Video: The Promise, and Limits, of AI in Medicine

  • TEDMED Conversations
  • January 14, 2026

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Artificial intelligence is already making medical decisions—often without patients realizing it. In this episode of TEDMED Conversations, Bruce Schneier and Dr. Leana Wen unpack where AI is quietly saving lives, where it falls short, and why it may be “better than no doctor at all” in many settings. They challenge the idea of AI as a replacement for clinicians, arguing instead that the real stakes lie in how power, trust, and accountability are built into these systems. The conversation cuts through the hype to ask a harder question: how do we use AI to expand care without losing the human judgment medicine depends on?…

Video: AI and the Rise of Bulk Spying

  • Not Dead Yet
  • January 9, 2026

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In the first episode of Not Dead Yet, Robert Baggs speaks with Bruce Schneier, a New York Times bestseller and security technologist.

00:00 Intro

02:43 The world since the Snowden leak

05:04 What’s worse for privacy, Big Tech or government agencies?

07:19 Surveillance capitalism and the horrors of AI

09:34 How powerful is data?

13:07 The tracking device in your pocket

15:34 The Le Monde investigation

17:10 The rise of bulk spying

19:03 The danger of AI in surveillance

21:52 Should personalized ads be illegal?

23:05…

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Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.