Month: October 2025
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Hard Choices: CITP Workshop on Payment Systems at the Global DPI Summit in Capetown, South Africa
Authored by Mihir Kshirsagar, Jeremy McKey, and Felix Chen On November 5, 2025, Princeton CITP and the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India (CGI), in partnership with AfricaNenda, will convene an interactive workshop at the Global DPI Summit 2025 to examine the difficult trade-offs governments face when designing national payment systems. The session, Hard Choices…
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Meet the Researcher: Sam Hafferty
Sam Hafferty is part of the 2024 – 2026 Emerging Scholar Program cohort at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). Hafferty is contributing to work concerning data privacy regulation and broadband equity. Princeton undergraduate Jason Persaud ‘27 recently sat down with Hafferty to discuss how they got started in this type of work,…
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Lifespan of AI Chips: The $300 Billion Question
Authored by: Mihir Kshirsagar This week, Open AI announced a multibillion dollar deal with Broadcom to develop custom AI chips for data centers projected to consume 10 gigawatts of power. This investment is separate from another multibillion dollar deal OpenAI struck with AMD last week. There is no question that we are in the midst of…
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Our class spent 10-days self-experimenting with social media use: here’s what we found
Authored by: Sofia Avila, Yasemin Savas, and Matthew Salganik U.S. adults in 2019 spent more than 6 hours a day using digital media. In 2021, 1/3 of American adults reported being constantly online. Despite the extensive time spent on social media, users often overlook how these platforms shape their attention, habits, and mood. Social media…
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AI “Born Secret”? The Atomic Energy Act, AI, and Federalism
Authored by: Kylie Zhang and Peter Henderson Tl;dr: Can states regulate AI risks of disclosing nuclear secrets? This post will explore the Atomic Energy Act, its applicability to AI, the potential impacts on state efforts, and potential policy recommendations for guiding AI safety evaluations and model releases. If an advanced AI system can figure out…
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The Promise of “Public AI”: Lessons from a National Gathering of State Leaders
Blog Post Author: Mihir Kshirsagar Shaping the Future of AI Conference Report authored by: Mihir Kshirsagar and Sophie Luskin Photography by Sameer Khan / Fotobuddy Photography This summer, over 120 policymakers, researchers, and government leaders gathered in Princeton to wrestle with a deceptively simple question: How can artificial intelligence truly serve the public interest? Our…