CITP Blog is hosted by Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you’ll find comment and analysis from the digital frontier, written by the Center’s faculty, students, and friends.
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Nitya Nadgir is a recent alumnus of the Emerging Scholars program at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University from 2023 – 2025 where she brought her…
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Statutory Construction & Interpretation for AI
Blogpost authors: Nimra Nadeem, Lucy He, Michel Liao, and Peter Henderson Paper authors: Lucy He, Nimra Nadeem, Michel Liao, Howard Chen, Danqi Chen, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Peter Henderson A longer version…
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Emotional Reliance on AI: Design, Dependency, and the Future of Human Connection
What We Learned at CHAI 2025 Tutorial – by Inyoung Cheong, Quan Ze Chen, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, and Peter Henderson “I don’t feel, I don’t remember, and I don’t care. That’s…
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Announcing the Inaugural CITP Technology Fellows Program
Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is launching a new Technology Fellows Program. This initiative is designed to connect technologists with government experience to create an expert network…
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Newly-Retired Andrew Appel Reflects on his Voting Machine Advocacy
by Yaakov Zinberg ‘23 During the first week of the 2009 spring semester, Andrew Appel ’81, Princeton’s Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, made the short trip down Route 1…
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The “Bubble” of Risk: Improving Assessments for Offensive Cybersecurity Agents
Authored by Boyi Wei Most frontier models today undergo some form of safety testing, including whether they can help adversaries launch costly cyberattacks. But many of these assessments overlook a…
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Aligned Generative Models Exhibit Adultification Bias
This blog post is based on “Adultification Bias in LLMs and Text-To-Image Models” by Jane Castleman and Aleksandra Korolova, to appear in the 8th ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and…
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What the AI Whistleblower Protection Act Would Mean for Tech Workers
This piece was originally published on Tech Policy Press. Written by Sophie Luskin, Emerging Scholar at CITP. On May 15, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the AI Whistleblower Protection…
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Why Should the National R&D Strategy Prioritize Diffusion Over Innovation?
Yesterday, researchers at Princeton’s AI Lab and CITP submitted comments to the National Science Foundation on the 2025 National AI Research & Development (R&D) Strategic Plan. Recent advances in AI…
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Paper fingerprinting and ballot tracking
In part 1 of this 2-part series I explained: Some election-integrity advocates have suggested that, in addition to good chain-of-custody procedures for ballots between when they’re cast and when they’re…