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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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…
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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. 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,…
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Balancing Free Speech & Safety: Envisioning a Human-Centered First Amendment for AI Regulation – TechTakes
How should the law handle manipulative AI content, like bots that encourage self-harm or give explicit instructions for it? The U.S. First Amendment protects speakers, and AI companies might justifiably…
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“It Wasn’t Me”: DeepSeek denies they stole anything, but is their model still a cost revolution? – TechTakes
DeepSeek R1 came out on January 20, 2025, and triggered strong reactions throughout the world. Nvidia stock
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New Developments in California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Litigation
The ongoing legal challenge to California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) has entered a new phase, with tech industry group NetChoice pursuing an injunction on First Amendment grounds. This update examines…
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The Next Decade of Tech Policy: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
The Next Decade of Tech Policy: Challenges and Opportunities Ahead Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy’s Tech Policy: The Next Ten Years conference in October 2024 brought together leading scholars,…
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Strengthening AI Accountability Through Better Third Party Evaluations (Part 2)
At a recent Stanford-MIT-Princeton workshop, experts highlight the need for legal protections, standardized evaluation practices, and better terminology to support third-party AI evaluations. On October 28, researchers at Stanford, MIT,…
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Strengthening AI Accountability Through Better Third Party Evaluations (Part 1)
At a recent Stanford-MIT-Princeton workshop, experts highlight the need for legal protections, standardized evaluation practices, and better terminology to support third-party AI evaluations. Millions of people worldwide use general purpose…
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CAC-Vote: Another Insecure Internet Voting System
Philip Stark and I have released this paper with an analysis of a DARPA-sponsored research project to develop an internet voting system. An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative…