Author: Center for Information Technology Policy
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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…
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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…