Author: Mihir Kshirsagar
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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 a crash. But these discussions miss an important pattern that held across all three prior cycles: when the bubbles burst, investors lost money but society…
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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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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 investment is separate from another multibillion dollar deal OpenAI struck with AMD last week. There is no question that we are in the midst of…
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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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Why Should the National R&D Strategy Prioritize Diffusion Over Innovation?
Yesterday, researchers at Princeton’s AI Lab and CITP submitted comments to the National Science Foundation on the 2025 National AI Research & Development (R&D) Strategic Plan. Recent advances in AI (artificial intelligence), particularly with foundation models, are poised to have transformative effects on society. The question is not whether AI will reshape our economy and…
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CITP Comments on AI Accountability
Recently, the White House opened a number of opportunities for the public to comment on the growing field of accountability for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), the Executive Branch agency that is principally responsible for advising the President on telecommunications and information policy issues, launched a comment process that…
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States Sending Data to TikTok from Government Websites Despite Concerns
By Yash Parikh and Mihir Kshirsagar While some states like Montana are trying to ban data collection by TikTok, other states like Missouri are actively – and perhaps, unknowingly – sending their citizen’s data to TikTok. Yash Parikh, a Princeton computer science student, conducted research that reveals that at least one Missouri government website – covidvaccine.mo.gov…
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CITP Tech Clinic Files Amicus Brief In Gonzalez v. Google Case
By Nia Brazzell and Mihir Kshirsagar In Gonzalez v. Google, a case under review at the Supreme Court, the families of individuals killed by ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris allege that YouTube aided and abetted terrorist strikes by radicalizing recruits through personalized recommendations of videos. CITP’s Tech Policy Clinic filed its first amicus brief before…
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Recommendations for Updating the FTC’s Disclosure Guidelines to Combat Dark Patterns
Last week, CITP’s Tech Policy Clinic, along with Dr. Jennifer King, brought leading interdisciplinary academic researchers together to provide recommendations to the Federal Trade Commission on how it should update the 2013 version of its online digital advertising guidelines (the “Disclosure Guidelines”). This post summarizes the comment’s main takeaways. We focus on how the FTC…
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New Study Analyzing Political Advertising on Facebook, Google, and TikTok
By Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Christelle Tessono, Arvind Narayanan, Mihir Kshirsagar With the 2022 midterm elections in the United States fast approaching, political campaigns are poised to spend heavily to influence prospective voters through digital advertising. Online platforms such as Facebook, Google, and TikTok will play an important role in distributing that content. But our new study…