AI for the Public Interest: Bruce Schneier
October 30th, 2025
”Helping citizens be better citizens.”
We discuss how AI can both serve the public interest and advance the goals of our democracy, despite the misgivings about the current state of AI.
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, chief of security architecture at Inrupt Inc, a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the co-author of Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship.
Your civic action toolkit recommendations from Bruce are:
Use the tools of AI!
Use assistive tech to write to your elected representatives
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Credits:
Host: Mila Atmos
Guest: Bruce Schneier
Executive Producer: Mila Atmos
Producer: Zack Travis