“A panoramic and thorough survey, Rewiring Democracy provides an original and imaginative take on the impacts of AI on democracy. It’s full of brilliant nuggets of extrapolation. I really enjoyed it.”
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI; author of The Coming Wave
Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship presents a detailed look at how artificial intelligence is reshaping the core functions of democratic governance.
Bruce Schneier, a security technologist, and Nathan E. Sanders, a data scientist, use their combined experience to examine how AI is affecting political institutions, legal systems, and civic participation. They focus on the structural changes already underway in governments and societies as algorithmic systems become more complex, not only on the emerging risks.
The book examines several major areas of change.
It considers how AI could reshape the relationship between legislatures and the executive branch by enabling more technically complex and responsive laws. It also looks at the role of AI in administration, especially its potential to automate or selectively enforce regulations, and how this could shift power within public institutions. In law, the authors discuss how machine learning might affect litigation, judicial reasoning, and the protection of rights.
Schneier and Sanders describe AI as a force that needs careful, participatory governance.
They emphasize that AI’s impact on democracy will depend on the choices institutions, developers, and policymakers make in regulating and integrating it into civic life.
With a systems-level view, Rewiring Democracy examines how technology and political power intersect. It explains the practical effects of AI in governance and asks how these tools can be aligned with democratic values and accountability.
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