Author: Center for Information Technology Policy
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Announcing the Inaugural CITP Technology Fellows Program
Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is launching a new Technology Fellows Program. This initiative is designed to connect technologists with government experience to create an expert network addressing the shortage of technical expertise in state and local regulatory bodies nationwide. The online application is now open. As governments increasingly confront complex challenges…
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Newly-Retired Andrew Appel Reflects on his Voting Machine Advocacy
by Yaakov Zinberg ‘23 During the first week of the 2009 spring semester, Andrew Appel ’81, Princeton’s Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, made the short trip down Route 1 to Trenton’s Superior Court. He was asked to serve as an expert witness in a New Jersey trial in which the state was accused of…
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The “Bubble” of Risk: Improving Assessments for Offensive Cybersecurity Agents
Authored by Boyi Wei Most frontier models today undergo some form of safety testing, including whether they can help adversaries launch costly cyberattacks. But many of these assessments overlook a critical factor: adversaries can adapt and modify models in ways that expand the risk far beyond the perceived safety profile that static evaluations capture. At…
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Aligned Generative Models Exhibit Adultification Bias
This blog post is based on “Adultification Bias in LLMs and Text-To-Image Models” by Jane Castleman and Aleksandra Korolova, to appear in the 8th ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025). The blog post can also be found on Jane and Aleksandra’s Substack, Eclectic Notes on AI. Generative AI models are poised to…
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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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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…