This Machine Kills

A podcast about technology and political economy /// Agitprop against innovation and capital /// Hosted by Jathan Sadowski and Edward Ongweso Jr., Produced by Jereme Brown /// Hello friends and enemies Listen anywhere that fine podcasts are distributed. Subscribe at patreon.com/thismachinekills to get premium episodes every week.

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This Machine Kills

Episodes (467)

Thursday 445. What’s Democracy Got to Do With AI? (ft. Bruce Schneier)
Wed Feb 11th Patreon Preview – 444. The Stories We Tell
Wed Feb 4th 443. Behold the Big Beautiful AI State (ft. Brian Chen)

This Machine Kills

Feb 19, 2026
1¼ hours
151 MB

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 https://www.schneier.com/ ••• Rewiring Democracy | Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049948/rewiring-democracy/ ••• The Promptware Kill Chain: H...

This Machine Kills

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

This Machine Kills

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