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 […] The post The State AI Policy Forum: First Convening This Friday appeared first on CITP Blog.| CITP Blog
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 […]| CITP Blog
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 […]| CITP Blog
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 […]| CITP Blog
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 […]| CITP Blog
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 […] The post Announcing the Inaugural CITP Technology Fellows Program appeared ...| CITP Blog
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 […] The post Newly-Retired Andrew Appel Reflects on his Voting Machine Advocacy appeared first on CITP Blog.| CITP Blog
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 […] The post The “Bubble” of Risk: Improving Assessments for Offensive Cybersecurity Agents appeared first on CITP Blog.| CITP Blog
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 […] The post Aligned Generative Models Exhibit Adultification Bias appeared first on CITP Blog.| CITP Blog
This piece was originally published on Tech Policy Press. Written by Sophie Luskin, Emerging Scholar at CITP. On May 15, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the AI Whistleblower Protection Act (AIWPA), a bipartisan bill to protect individuals who disclose information regarding a potential artificial intelligence security vulnerability or violation. Under the bill, these whistleblowers […] The post What the AI Whistleblower Protection Act Would Mean for Tech Workers a...| CITP Blog
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 […]| CITP Blog
Josh wrote recently about a serious security bug that appeared in Debian Linux back in 2006, and whether it was really a backdoor inserted by the NSA. (He concluded that it probably was not.) Today I want to write about another incident, in 2003, in which someone tried to backdoor the Linux kernel. This one […]| CITP Blog
