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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Authors: Tanvi Prem, Mihir Kshirsagar (Princeton University) Image courtesy Barron’s. As people turn to AI chatbots with election questions, we are studying the effectiveness of their guardrails. In this post,…
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Voting machines left unattended, as usual
Earlier this month I was in a Vietnamese restaurant near my office. As the waiter brought water, napkin, and chopsticks, he dropped the chopsticks (still in their paper wrapper) on…
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Organizing and Automating Poll Tape Auditing
(Part 3 of a 3-part series) In previous articles in this series, I’ve explained that any member of the public can witness the poll tapes printed by voting machines when…
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Compare the Poll Tapes Against the Precinct-by-Precinct Election Results
(part 2 of a 3-part series) In most states, the county election administrator publishes election results with vote totals for each candidate broken down by precinct. Here’s an example from…
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Publish the Poll Tapes
(Part 1 of a 3-part series) If we are worried that hacked (or unintentionally misconfigured) voting systems might incorrectly count the ballots, there are three parts to the voting system…
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AI Election Policy
Authors: Tanvi Prem, Mihir Kshirsagar (Princeton University) Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As we enter the midterm election cycle, there is growing evidence that Americans are turning to AI chatbots for…
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Does the Current AI Buildout Depend on an Automation Agenda?
Authors: Mihir Kshirsagar (Princeton University) Data centers in Ashburn, VA. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Arvind Narayanan kicked off CITP’s seminar series for the academic year by arguing that we should…
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Making Community Governance Legible: A Semester with Bonfire
By Sohyeon Hwang Authors: Sohyeon Hwang (Princeton University), Andrés Monroy-Hernández (Princeton University) Most of us have spent the last two decades living inside platforms we have little control over. A…
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After Math
By Eamon Duede Authors: Silvia De Toffoli (University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia), Eamon Duede (Princeton University and Purdue University) Note: This post was originally shared on Terry Tao’s…
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CITP Welcomes 2026-27 Fellows
The Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) welcomes our incoming Visiting Faculty, Postdoctoral Associates, and Emerging Scholars for the 2026-27 academic year! Graduate student bios will be shared on the…