Bruce Schneier

The tech giants ingest vast amounts of copyrighted material: books, journalism, academic papers, art, music and personal writing. This data is scraped at industrial scale, often without consent, compensation or transparency, and then used to train la... more Unverified source (2026)

In order for our free market to function in the public interest, the companies amassing wealth and profiting from AI must be forced to take ownership of, and internalize, these costs. Unverified source (2026)

We need to figure out new ways of auditing and reviewing to make sure the AI-type mistakes don't wreck our work. AI Verified source (2024)

In December, the Trump administration signed an executive order that neutered states' ability to regulate AI by ordering his administration to both sue and withhold funds from states that try to do so. [...] By preempting state oversight, the federal... more Unverified source (2026)

A democracy that defers its knowledge to private algorithms is one that risks becoming a spectator to its own governance. [...] If public knowledge is absorbed into proprietary systems that the public cannot inspect, audit or meaningfully challenge, ... more Unverified source (2026)

Corporate AI often prioritizes profit over public good, and critical capabilities (safety, security, equitable access) may never be developed privately. Unverified source (2026)

Forcing an AI to produce a human-understandable explanation is an additional constraint, and it could affect the quality of its decisions. AI Verified source (2021)