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    {
      "id": 19249,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/separating-ais-technological-problems-from-its-capitalism-problems.html",
      "title": "Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems",
      "summary": "This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in Tech Policy Press . AI represents the first time we humans can do cognitive work outside of our bodies at scale. The only comparable moment is the early years of the industrial revolution, when new technologies like the steam engine provided a quantum leap in our ability to do mechanical work outside of our bodies at scale. If AI’s cognitive capabilities become integrated into our lives, businesses, and governments—a proce",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-13T11:07:19.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19249"
    },
    {
      "id": 18859,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/prompt-injections-for-defense.html",
      "title": "Prompt Injections for Defense",
      "summary": "This seems to work : Researchers from Tracebit on Monday said they found that placing prompt injections alongside passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets stored on Amazon Web Services was often all that was needed to shut down attacks from AI hacking agents. The prompts direct the attacking LLM to perform an action forbidden by its guardrails, the safety barriers AI developers erect to prevent it from taking harmful actions. The LLM responds by shutting down. Examples are a prompt that",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "military-security,agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-12T09:56:37.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18859"
    },
    {
      "id": 18491,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-genie-in-the-wild.html",
      "title": "AI Genie in the Wild",
      "summary": "When I give talks about AI genies , I use this sort of example as a hypothetical. It’s happened . The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. And…. Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered a way to book Andrew into classes several weeks in advance, far beyond what was supposed to be possible. Andrew, who was sitting fourth on a waitlist for a class later that week, asked if it was possible to move him to the top of the list. The ag",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T15:55:11.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18491"
    },
    {
      "id": 18492,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-for-military-support.html",
      "title": "AI for Military Support",
      "summary": "Interesting empirical research: “ Black Box Warfare: Human Judgment and Military Decision-Making in the Age of AI .” Abstract: How is AI transforming decision-making in modern conflict? This study provides a unique empirical window into that question by deploying a high-fidelity replica of an AI decision-support system (DSS) used in military targeting. After reconstructing the interface and functionality of the real-world system, we tested its impact on combat decisions in two experiments involv",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "military-security",
      "published_at": "2026-08-11T11:18:07.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18492"
    },
    {
      "id": 17510,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/friday-squid-blogging-arctic-bobtail-squid-video.html",
      "title": "Friday Squid Blogging: Arctic Bobtail Squid Video",
      "summary": "Nice video of the Arctic bobtail squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-07T21:07:04.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17510"
    },
    {
      "id": 17159,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/adversarial-clothing-designed-to-fool-facial-recognition-systems.html",
      "title": "Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems",
      "summary": "There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems. It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater: “Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin you down,” he said. Bell, however, said “none of these products are tried and tested, and a lot of these surveillance technologies can deal with a little resistance … [but] even if the designs don’t necessarily work perfectly, fashion is also",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-08-06T11:04:51.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17159"
    },
    {
      "id": 16361,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/iran-cyberattacks-against-minnesota-water-systems.html",
      "title": "Iran Cyberattacks Against Minnesota Water Systems",
      "summary": "Attribution is preliminary , and so far it seems no real damage. And it seems like this is a campaign that has targeted at least seven states . And, because this is where the US is right now, Trump doesn’t believe it’s Iran and that Minnesota…I guess…hacked itself. “I think I blame it on Minnesota because they’re grossly incompetent,” Trump said. “I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota. They like to say, ‘Oh, it’s Iran.’ Iran should be so lucky. Iran’s",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T19:00:53.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16361"
    },
    {
      "id": 16362,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/some-claude-chats-are-searchable-on-google.html",
      "title": "Some Claude Chats Are Searchable on Google",
      "summary": "And it’s personal information (alternate link ): The exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze medical billing data. Exposed chats reportedly include private cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal information like peoples’ addresses. What seems to be the issue is a user setting about data sharing. Anthropic’s position is that it’s not their problem : “We give people control over",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "healthcare",
      "published_at": "2026-08-04T10:13:58.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16362"
    },
    {
      "id": 15941,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/more-on-the-openai-agents-attack-on-hugging-face.html",
      "title": "More on the OpenAI Agent’s Attack on Hugging Face",
      "summary": "Hugging Face has published a detailed timeline of the attack. From the summary: The agent was running an internal OpenAI cyber-capability evaluation based on the ExploitGym benchmark, which tasks an AI agent with finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. OpenAI ran this on its own infrastructure, and the ExploitGym maintainers and their infrastructure had no involvement in the deployment or operation of that evaluation environment. As far as we were able to infer, across the course of bei",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "military-security,agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-08-03T17:02:46.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15941"
    },
    {
      "id": 15942,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/the-openai-hack-shows-the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle.html",
      "title": "The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle",
      "summary": "This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy . Earlier this month, two of OpenAI’s models broke out of their containment sandbox and attacked another AI company. The story is kind of wild . OpenAI was running security tests on two of its models: GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model that is almost certainly GPT-6. In particular, it was running the ExploitGym benchmark, which measures how good a model is at turning security vulnerabilities into working exploits: basically, offensive cyberattack",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-08-03T10:47:47.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15942"
    },
    {
      "id": 15420,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/facial-recognition-at-madison-square-garden.html",
      "title": "Facial Recognition at Madison Square Garden",
      "summary": "Last month, the story broke (alternate link ) that Madison Square Garden uses facial recognition software on everyone entering the facility, and—among other groups—flags activists that oppose using facial recognition. Turns out that the system was shut off for Taylor Swift’s wedding. Evan Greer—one of the people that MSG alerts on— comments : Ironically, Swift herself has reportedly used facial recognition at her own concerts to identify stalkers. This “privacy for me, surveillance for thee” att",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-07-31T11:08:44.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15420"
    },
    {
      "id": 15015,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/should-you-use-ai-for-a-task-heres-a-simple-way-to-decide.html",
      "title": "Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide",
      "summary": "This essay originally appeared in The Guardian . I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my students regularly use AI to complete their writing assignments. Doing so is a waste of their tuition money. But if their entire career is going to include AI writing assistants, why shouldn’t they embrace their future? The best way I’ve found to explain the dilemma comes from the AI researcher Daniel",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation,children-education",
      "published_at": "2026-07-30T11:01:32.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15015"
    },
    {
      "id": 14653,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/measuring-the-tendency-of-ai-agents-to-go-rogue.html",
      "title": "Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue",
      "summary": "This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian . In July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much of the world’s AI software and open-source AI models, was hacked. A malicious dataset had been used to run code on one of its servers. Whoever was behind it captured internal security credentials and moved through systems over a weekend, running thousands of actions from a swarm of temporary server environments. It looked like the work of a sophisticated crimina",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
      "published_at": "2026-07-29T17:07:53.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14653"
    },
    {
      "id": 14243,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/axon-is-another-license-plate-surveillance-company.html",
      "title": "Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company",
      "summary": "Governments are switching, but I’m not sure it makes a difference : …some municipalities, including Denver, Colorado, are ditching their Flock arrays. But keep in mind that if they’re only switching from Flock to another brand of license-plate readers, like Axon, it’s like a gambling addict trying to kick the habit by switching from FanDuel to DraftKings. […] Despite what you may read on the Flock website, Axon cameras are pretty effective when it comes to hoovering up personal details that can",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-07-28T11:06:30.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14243"
    },
    {
      "id": 13881,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/cognyte-sells-a-mobile-cell-surveillance-van.html",
      "title": "Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van",
      "summary": "Yet another Israeli mass surveillance company : Made by Israeli surveillance company Cognyte, the tech simulates a mobile phone tower, which forces nearby phones to connect to it. That enables cops to keep tabs on any phones in the vicinity ­ whether they’re owned by a suspect in a case or not. Cognyte’s contract with the state of Texas reveals that the simulator, called FalcoNet, can be concealed within the vehicles, hidden in a backpack for on-foot missions or attached to a helicopter. It’s th",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-07-27T11:04:30.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13881"
    },
    {
      "id": 13205,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/friday-squid-blogging-illex-squid-catch-in-the-falklands.html",
      "title": "Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands",
      "summary": "Lower catch this year . As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-24T21:06:00.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13205"
    },
    {
      "id": 13206,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/end-to-end-encryption-and-going-dark.html",
      "title": "End-to-End Encryption and “Going Dark”",
      "summary": "New paper: “ Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of the ‘Going Dark’ Debate “: Abstract : This Article updates and expands on 2012 research on encryption and globalization, analyzing what the authors call “Round 3” of the Going Dark Debate: the current controversies over end-to-end encryption (E2EE). Governments around the world have proposed, and in some cases enacted, laws limiting E2EE for law enforcement and national security purposes. This",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation,military-security",
      "published_at": "2026-07-23T11:03:50.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13206"
    },
    {
      "id": 12421,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/mit-to-become-hotbed-of-ai-video-surveillance.html",
      "title": "MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance",
      "summary": "It’s a lot : According to information obtained by The Tech , MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive. Installation of the new cameras, along with the wiring and infrastructure that will support them, began November 2025 and will likely continue until September 2026. Technical specifications for the cameras suggest that they will be capable of collecting real-time face and object classi",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-07-21T11:07:13.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12421"
    },
    {
      "id": 12057,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/on-flock-license-plate-tracking-cameras.html",
      "title": "On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras",
      "summary": "A recent story of a writer who was mistakenly identified, tracked, and arrested using data from Flock cameras has gone viral. The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM , not 34 10 DTM . But when the police report was created and the plate was entered into Flock’s system, it was just recorded as 34 DTM . Just the five large characters, no little number in the middle. And Flock’s AI tech wasn’t registering that non-standard little number when it began picki",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-07-20T11:03:45.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12057"
    },
    {
      "id": 11448,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/friday-squid-blogging-squid-washing-up-on-cape-cod-beach.html",
      "title": "Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Washing Up on Cape Cod Beach",
      "summary": "Lots of articles about this . As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-17T21:01:37.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11448"
    },
    {
      "id": 11083,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/protecting-privacy-in-an-ai-era.html",
      "title": "Protecting Privacy in an AI Era",
      "summary": "Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link ) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era. Instead, we need to hold companies accountable for their actions, similar to what we do with food and drug companies. Measures such as rigorous data minimization, fiduciary duties, liability for negligent or reckless technological design, liability for algorithms that cause harm, and multi-stakeholder review of technologies w",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance,healthcare,transparency",
      "published_at": "2026-07-16T14:34:31.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11083"
    },
    {
      "id": 2446,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/upcoming-speaking-engagements-58.html",
      "title": "Upcoming Speaking Engagements",
      "summary": "This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually) at the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop in Calgary, Canada, on Monday, July 20, 2026. I’m speaking at Boston Leadership Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. I’m speaking at Cognitive Security Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The conference runs August 6-7, 2026; my speaking time is TBD. I’m speaking at DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The conventions runs ",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation,privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-07-14T16:04:49.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2446"
    },
    {
      "id": 2447,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/friday-squid-blogging-squidbleed-vulnerability.html",
      "title": "Friday Squid Blogging: “Squidbleed” Vulnerability",
      "summary": "In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-10T21:07:13.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2447"
    },
    {
      "id": 2448,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-surveillance-and-social-progress.html",
      "title": "AI Surveillance and Social Progress",
      "summary": "In the near future, AI -powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system will notice, retain it, tie it to your official government record, communicate that fact to you, and provide real-time alerts to any relevant authorities… and maybe also to the general public. Think of these systems as automated speed cameras, but on steroids. Only they’ll enforce n",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "privacy-surveillance",
      "published_at": "2026-07-10T11:02:04.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2448"
    },
    {
      "id": 2450,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/cybersecurity-and-the-gap-between-skill-and-ability.html",
      "title": "Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability",
      "summary": "Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club—jointly released a statement warning of the increasing cyber risks of AI models: in particular, their ability to autonomously hack into systems and networks. The statement was more measured than some of the breathless headlines about it, and the advice they gave is pretty much the standard advice everyone gives—albeit with newfound urgency. Internet risks are nothing new, and cybera",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "military-security",
      "published_at": "2026-07-08T11:03:04.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2450"
    },
    {
      "id": 2452,
      "url": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/flock-cameras-can-surveil-cars-without-license-plates.html",
      "title": "Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates",
      "summary": "This is from a 2024 company presentation : Officers can also tap into data showing a car’s decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks—along with temporary and unique state tags. Flock calls it a “Vehicle Fingerprint” and it’s touted as a way for law enforcement officials to get more information “even when you don’t have full plate information,” the company’s presentation shows. The company gives police officers the ability to search that data as well, to “build stronger cases with less informat",
      "authors": "Bruce Schneier",
      "category": "org",
      "topics": "regulation",
      "published_at": "2026-07-03T11:15:25.000Z",
      "source": "Bruce Schneier — Schneier on Security",
      "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2452"
    }
  ],
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}