Author: Center for Information Technology Policy
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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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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…
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The State AI Policy Forum: First Convening This Friday
Author: Mihir Kshirsagar CITP is launching the inaugural State AI Policy Forum this Friday, September 26, 2025 with our first convening of state legislators and their staff. The Forum provides a neutral venue for state legislators to learn about the policy implications of AI technologies. The Forum addresses the challenge that state legislators are making…
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How do states define digital literacy in their digital equity plans?
Co-authored by Sam Hafferty, Mihir Kshirsagar, Eszter Hargittai, and Tithi Chattopadhyay Our survey of state digital equity plans makes abundantly clear that states view digital skills as important and necessary to modern life. With increasing digital workplace demands, shifts towards K-12 online learning environments, and the adoption of telehealth technologies in medical service administration, digital…
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Meet the Researcher: Nitya Nadgir
Nitya Nadgir is a recent alumnus of the Emerging Scholars program at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University from 2023 – 2025 where she brought her interests of data privacy, surveillance, and media-driven polarization to the Center. During her time at CITP, Nitya worked with researchers to develop evaluations for agentic…
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Statutory Construction & Interpretation for AI
Blogpost authors: Nimra Nadeem, Lucy He, Michel Liao, and Peter Henderson Paper authors: Lucy He, Nimra Nadeem, Michel Liao, Howard Chen, Danqi Chen, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Peter Henderson A longer version of this blog is available on the POLARIS Lab website, an accompanying policy brief is available online, and the full paper can be found on…
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Emotional Reliance on AI: Design, Dependency, and the Future of Human Connection
What We Learned at CHAI 2025 Tutorial – by Inyoung Cheong, Quan Ze Chen, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, and Peter Henderson “I don’t feel, I don’t remember, and I don’t care. That’s not coldness—it’s design“ — Excerpt from a user-shared ChatGPT record As conversational AI systems become more emotionally expressive, users increasingly treat them not just as…