Bruce Schneier

AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such. If a company hired human writers to write its summaries, that company would be liable for inaccuracies in those summaries. If a company’s h...

Now that we recognize the danger of AI-enhanced mass surveillance, we can make the policy choices not to implement it.

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, ...

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...

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

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