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Integrity in a World of AI
Bruce Schneier, Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto
January 27, 2026 1:30pm, in DC 1302 and Zoom
Abstract
In computer security, the CIA Triad represented the three security properties systems should have: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Of the three, integrity has been the most elusive; and, in an AI-powered internet-of-things world, the most important. This talk explores all the facets of integrity: data, processing, storage, and contextual. Web 1.0 was all about availability; Web 2.0 about privacy. If we are ever going to build the distributed, decentralized, intelligent web of tomorrow – and trust these systems to take complex actions on our behalf – we are going to need to solve integrity.
Bio
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books – including Rewiring Democracy and A Hacker’s Mind -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His long-running newsletter and blog, “Schneier on Security,” is one of the most popular sources of cybersecurity news on the internet. Schneier is a Fellow and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. He is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is also the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.
