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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Most U.S. election jurisdictions (states, counties, cities, or other subjurisdictions) use voting machines to tally votes, and in some cases also to mark votes on paper. In most U.S. states,…
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The Limits of Data Filtering in Bio-Foundation Models
Blog Authors: Boyi Wei, Matthew Siegel, and Peter Henderson Paper Authors: Boyi Wei*, Zora Che*, Nathaniel Li, Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Jasper Götting, Samira Nedungadi, Julian Michael, Summer Yue, Dan Hendrycks,…
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Meet the Researcher: Jane Castleman
Jane Castleman is a Master’s student in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. Castleman’s research centers around the fairness, transparency, and privacy of algorithmic systems, particularly in the…
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Why the GenAI Infrastructure Boom May Break Historical Patterns
Authored by Mihir Kshirsagar Observers invoke railroad, electricity, and telecom precedents when contextualizing the current generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) infrastructure boom—usually to debate whether or when we are heading for…
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Meet the Researcher: Varun Satish
Varun Satish is a Ph.D. student in demography at Princeton University. His current projects include using language models to study the life course, and using machine learning to uncover shifting…
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CITP Is Now Accepting Applications for the 2026–27 Fellows Program
*The deadline has been updated to December 8, 2025 as of November 13, 2025. Applications are now open for Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) 2026-27 Fellows Program.…
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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…
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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…
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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…