Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy

Meet the Researcher: Jane Castleman - CITP Blog Jane Castleman is a Master’s student in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. Castleman’s research centers around the fairness, transparency, and privacy of algorithmic systems, ...

A brand new Meet the Researcher with Jane Castleman is now up on the CITP Blog 💡

Castleman is a 2025 Siebel Scholars Program awardee for her exceptional academic work in computer science.

Read the full interview on the Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/12/03/m...

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CITP postdoc Inyoung Cheong (@inyoungcheong.bsky.social) recently discussed emerging chatbot emotional intimacy that humans are feeling & expressing on an episode of
@npr.org's @whyy.org @thepulse.whyy.org.

Listen online for free to learn why: whyy.org/episodes/how...

I had the privilege of delivering my first talk at @princetoncitp.bsky.social today.

Reminder: The CITP Fellows Program application has been extended until next Monday, December 8, 2025.

-Postdocs
-Visiting Researcher / Professional
-Visiting Professor

Apply online or share with your networks: citp.princeton.edu/programs/fel...

While there wasn't a Tuesday Seminar today due to Thanksgiving break, you can now catch up on past seminars from this semester on the CITP YouTube channel that you may have missed 👉 www.youtube.com/user/citppri...

CITP Seminar: Scientific Barriers to Evidence-Based Tech Policy | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Twenty years after Facebook spread across college campuses, its effects on society remain heavily studied and poorly understood. Little consensus exists over whether it promotes or degrades mental hea...

I recently gave a seminar at CITP on the barriers to evidence based tech policy. It’s online to watch now!

H/t @princetoncitp.bsky.social

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Predictive policing is failing because it predicts police activity, not crime.

A smart new piece on the #RebootDemocracy Blog by Mihir Kshirsagar of @princetoncitp.bsky.social breaks down how diagnostic data can actually reduce harm and improve safety.

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Read the new essay written by Mihir Kshirsagar about predictive policing tech:

"For policing, it means nearly 24,000 predictions sent officers to locations where no predicted crime occurred - adding police presence based on algorithmic guesswork that proved wrong more than 99 times out of 100."

📢 Updated deadline: CITP will accept applications until Monday, December 8, 2025.

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CITP Is Now Accepting Applications for the 2026–27 Fellows Program - CITP Blog Applications are now open for Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) 2026-27 Fellows Program. Candidates are encouraged to apply by the start-of-review date of December...

CITP is hiring for the 2026 academic year. The list of advisors is now available on the CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/11/06/c...

▶️ Postdocs
▶️ Visiting Professor
▶️ Visiting Professional
▶️ Emerging Scholars

REGISTRATION: ai.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Join us 11/6 with the Princeton AI Lab (@princetonainews.bsky.social) at 2-4 pm for the Policy Fellows Seminar. Learn from the researchers of the AI Lab who work closely with governmental agencies at the state & federal level to advance the responsible development and utilization of AI. Info 👇

Join us remotely: citp.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

November 4th Tuesday Seminar will be with Joseph Bak-Coleman presenting his talk "Scientific Barriers to Evidence-Based Tech Policy" at 12:15pm.

Bak-Coleman is a collective behavior scientist at UW and a fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (@sfiscience.bsky.social)

Livestream available 🔗👇

Part of the AI Lab’s Policy Fellows Program, these researchers work closely with governmental agencies at the state & federal level to advance the responsible development and utilization of AI.

Registration is available online: ai.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

First Key Update: Capabilities and Risk Implications This Key Update covers major breakthroughs in AI capabilities since the publication of the last Report in January 2025 and some implications for major risks. New training techniques that allow AI syst...

Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social & Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social are Senior Advisors to the International AI Safety Report, a follow-up the first Jan '25 Report. The new report covers major breakthroughs in AI capabilities since the first publication. Read the report in full online👇

Will GenAI Break Google’s Dominance in Search? - ProMarket Judge Amit Mehta shaped his remedies in the Google Search case on the assumption that startups developing generative artificial intelligence models can restore competition in internet search. Mihir Kshirsagar analyzes the barriers to entry these startups face—scale, distribution, defaults, data and integration advantages, and content access—to show how Big Tech is still in control of the future of the search industry.

NEW: Judge Amit Mehta shaped his remedies in the Google Search case on the assumption that startups developing generative artificial intelligence models can restore competition in internet search. Mihir Kshirsagar (@princetoncitp.bsky.social) analyzes the barriers to entry these startups still face.

@princetoncitp.bsky.social is accepting applications for interested researchers to join! Applications now open for the Emerging Scholars Program, as well as the Fellows Program. Deadlines vary, check out the CITP website:

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CITP is now accepting applications for the 2026–27 Fellows Program. We're looking for the following:

➡️ Postdoctoral Research Associate
➡️ Visiting Research Scholar (Visiting Professional)
➡️ Microsoft Visiting Research Scholar (Visiting Professor)

Apply online: citp.princeton.edu/news/2025/no...

AI "Born Secret"? The Atomic Energy Act, AI, and Federalism - CITP Blog 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 recommen...

🧠 What happens if AI could give you the roadmap to build a nuclear weapon?

Now up on the CITP Blog: "AI 'Born Secret'? The Atomic Energy Act, AI, & Federalism" authored by computer science PhD student Kylie Zhang + Prof @peterhenderson.bsky.social

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Federal employees: Regardless of the government shutdown, we are still moving ahead with the AI Precepts. Final deadline to apply is this Friday, October 3rd. Experts include @randomwalker.bsky.social, Mihir Kshirsagar, @peterhenderson.bsky.social, & @sayash.bsky.social

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Tomorrow 12:15pm: Tuesday Seminar with investigative journalist & professor at NYU & CITP visiting fellow Hilke Schellmann w/ her talk "The Power of Journalistic-Academic Collaborations".

Come early to get a seat, lunch, & chat. Sherrerd Hall, Room 306. Open to P-Uni.

🚫No livestream available.

📢📢 Call for federal employees for the AI Precepts in Washington, DC. Learn from experts Arvind Narayanan (@randomwalker.bsky.social), Mihir Kshirsagar, Peter Henderson (@peterhenderson.bsky.social, & Sayash Kapoor (@sayash.bsky.social). Deadline to apply: Fri, Oct. 3

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Congratulations to CITP's Jane Castleman & Sayash Kapoor (@sayash.bsky.social) for being named 2026 Siebel Scholars, which annually recognizes outstanding students from grad schools of energy science, computer science, business, & bioengineering 🎉

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Tomorrow @ 12:15pm: Tuesday Seminar w/ Chloé Bakalar
discussing AI ethics functions in practice & examining real tensions - eg openness v misuse, global norms v local harms.

Formerly at Meta, now at OpenAI. 🚫 No live streaming available. Get here early for a seat.

Open to all PrincetonU community

Princeton University AI Policy Precepts AI Policy Precepts in Washington, D.C.  The 2025 application is now openPrinceton University’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy Precepts is a non-partisan program designed to explore the core conce...

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📣 📣 Calling all federal gov't employees Apply to join the AI Policy Precepts in DC this fall. These are non-partisan programs designed to explore core concepts, opportunities, + risks underlying the #AI systems that will shape federal policymaking.

Application deadline is October 3, 2025 🔻

Hannah Bloch-Wehba: How Tech Took Over In his farewell speech on January 15, 2025, President Joe Biden warned about "the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex.” To use the “industrial complex” phrase, as Biden must have known, is to ...

Talk begins promptly. Get here a biut early for lunch and conversation. Livestream available to all on our website: citp.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Tomorrow's CITP Seminar at 12:15pm is with HannahBloch-Webha; her talk entitled "How Tech Took Over" centers the idea of the tech-industrial complex in governance.

Professor Bloch-Wehba is legal scholar from Texas A&M School of Law & a visiting fellow at CITP this fall.

Sherrerd Hall, Room 306

Technology Fellows Program Information Session - 9/12 The CITP Technology Fellows program is a new initiative that connects experienced technologists with government experience to critical public interest challenges. Join Mihir Kshirsagar for a second vi...

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