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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.
Audio: Legislators, Do It! II
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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?
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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.
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Video: Is AI a Threat to Democracy? Bruce Schneier Explains What Comes Next
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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…
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.