445. What’s Democracy Got to Do With AI? (ft. Bruce Schneier)

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. ••• Check out all of Bruce’s work ••• Rewiring Democracy | Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders ••• The Promptware Kill Chain: How Prompt Injections Gradually Evolved into a Multi-Step Malware Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: •••

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445. What’s Democracy Got to Do With AI? (ft. Bruce Schneier) is an episode from This Machine Kills by This Machine Kills.

This episode is 01:06:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 19, 2026.

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