Year: 2025
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Announcing a Study: Assessing The Impact of Federal Funding in Promoting Digital Equity
The Princeton Center for Information Technology (CITP) is embarking on a research study that examines how states are using Digital Equity Act funding to address digital inequity. This post outlines our research agenda and invites input from stakeholders of federally funded digital equity projects from across sectors. Historic Funding The Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill of 2021…
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Meet the Researcher: Mona Wang
Mona Wang is a Princeton Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy. Wang recently sat down with undergraduate student Tsion Kergo ‘26 for an interview where they discussed her research into surveillance technologies, what developed her interest in cryptography, and warns about the security risks of social…
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Meet the Researcher: Dominik Stammbach
Dominik Stammbach is a postdoctoral researcher at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. Stammbach completed his PhD at ETH Zürich in Switzerland and is now a part of Professor Peter Henderson’s POLARIS (Princeton Language+Law, Artificial Intelligence, & Society) Lab, which conducts interdisciplinary research at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and law. Stammbach recently…
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Meet the Researcher: Varun Rao
Varun Rao is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. Rao recently sat down with Princeton undergraduate student Tsion Kergo ‘26 for an interview to discuss his research interests, academic background, and the importance of responsible technology in society. Their conversation has been edited…
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A Guide to Cutting Through AI Hype: Arvind Narayanan and Melanie Mitchell Discuss Artificial and Human Intelligence
Last Thursday’s Princeton Public Lecture on AI hype began with brief talks based on our respective books: The meat of the event was a discussion between the two of us and with the audience. A lightly edited transcript follows. Photo credit: Floriaan Tasche AN: You gave the example of ChatGPT being unable to comply with…
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Revolutionizing Rideshare: Researchers Develop FairFare App to Empower Workers
On February 1, 2025, Colorado’s Transportation Network Transparency Bill (SB24-075) took effect. CITP scholars, along with their colleagues, played a key role in supporting advocacy around the bill by creating the FairFare app, which provided transparent data to help drivers, union organizers, and policymakers better understand the ride hail industry. Among other things, the new…
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Meet the Researcher: Manoel Horta Ribeiro
In an increasingly digital world, online platforms have transformed our primary means of communication and interaction. As such, platforms enable intersections between technological innovation, culture, and human behavior. Manoel Horta Ribeiro, the new Assistant Professor in Princeton University’s Department of Computer Science, can’t help but dig deeper into the implications of these interactions. Horta Ribeiro…
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Fact-checking or Community Notes? Why not both! – TechTakes
On Thursday, February 20, 2025 Elon Musk tweeted that X ’Community Notes” are “increasingly being gamed by governments and legacy media.” But back in January, Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta is dropping fact-checking in favor of community notes: “We’ve seen this approach work on X.” So does it stop disinformation or not? And is it…
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The Inception of CITP’s Digital Witness Lab – A Retrospective with Surya Mattu
By David M. Krakow The issue of data privacy is hardly new. The term “right to privacy” was used as far back as an 1890 Harvard Law Review article addressing the threat posed by photography and newspapers. Fast forward 135 years, and the threat is more complicated and widespread. It seems at times that one…
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Paris AI Action Summit 2025: AI Regulation Perspectives – TechTakes
How much regulation is too much regulation? The Paris Artificial Intelligence Action Summit 2025 ended yesterday with the U.S. and UK refusing to sign a 100-nation statement of regulatory priorities, aiming at creating a global AI sector that is “human rights based, human-centric, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy,” and addresses global inequalities in AI capacity.…