Reimagining Democracy
April 11 2025Imagine that all of us—all of society—have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the...
Read moreUpcoming Speaking Events
December 15 2024This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at a joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and...
Read moreAI and the 2024 Elections
December 4 2024It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance...
Read moreAI and the SEC Whistleblower Program
October 21 2024Tax farming is the practice of licensing tax collection to private contractors. Used heavily in ancient Rome, it’s largely fallen out of practice because of the obvious
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
October 15 2024This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at SOSS Fusion 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The event will be held on...
Read moreLLMs’ Data-Control Path Insecurity
May 13 2024Back in the 1960s, if you played a 2,600Hz tone into an AT&T pay phone, you could make calls without paying. A phone hacker named John Draper noticed...
Read moreSmuggling Gold by Disguising it as Machine Parts
April 12 2024Someone got caught trying to smuggle 322 pounds of gold (that’s about a quarter of a cubic foot) out of Hong Kong. It was disguised as machine parts: On March...
Read moreAI and Trust
March 26 2024Watch the Video on YouTube.com A 15-minute talk by Bruce Schneier.
Read moreHow the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
February 29 2024Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of growth, wealth, and human flourishing....
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