Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy

AI enters the exam room, and nurses are left to manage the fallout When alerts misfire or can’t explain themselves, nurses still carry the risk

What happens when you introduce AI into the emergency room?

"When alerts misfire or can’t explain themselves, nurses still carry the risk." - written by CITP Visiting Fellow
Hilke Schellmann in @sciam.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-i...

Congratulations to Sayash Kapoor on being awarded the Jacobus Fellowship, the highest honor bestowed on a graduate student at @princeton.edu. Kapoor will be honored in a ceremony this weekend.

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@sayash.bsky.social

Did you know that computer-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery (i.e., deepfake porn) is now a federal crime, with jail time? Research @princetoncitp.bsky.social is investigating the efficacy of regulatory measures like the Take It Down Act (S. 146) against AI-enabled sexual violence.

2/17 Tuesday Seminar will be presented by CITP postdoctoral researcher Alejandro Cuevas with his talk "Deepfakes are Dead, Long Live the Deepfakes" to discuss legislative implications on non-consensual intimate images (NCII).

📍lunch + Sherrerd Hall, 306 @ 12:15pm
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Jamie Wong: Scaling Startups with Growth Rituals: Venture Capitalism, Temporal Capital, and Protracted Liminality This talk focuses on the political economy of venture capital as context for "technological innovation." Successful startups grow from concepts into companies reaching billions in valuation within a f...

2/3 Tuesday Seminar with @princeton.edu professor of anthropology Jamie Wong presenting her talk on the political economy of venture capital as context for “technological innovation".

Join us a few minutes early for lunch; seminar at 12:15pm.

Note: No recording/livestream will be available.

Max Springer - A Geometric Perspective on LLM Behavior As large language models (LLMs) proliferate, understanding their emergent behaviors remains a central challenge. This talk proposes a framework for interpreting LLM behavior through the lens of geomet...

Tuesday Seminars begin again for the semester tomorrow 1/27 with Max Springer's (@maxspringer.bsky.social) talk entitled "A Geometric Perspective on LLM Behavior".

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Get here early for a sandwich & a chat. Begins promptly at 12:15. Sherrerd 306.

Livestreamed.

Bridging Prediction and Intervention Problems in Social Systems Machine learning models are often assessed by the quality of their predictions, yet their real-world impact extends far beyond these metrics. Models function as interventions within complex social sys...

Free @simonsinstitute.bsky.social workshop livestream available 📣 >> Join the "Bridging Prediction & Intervention Problems in Social Systems" happening all week long (Jan 12 - 15):

simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/br...

Register to join 🔻

There's still time to apply! The application deadline for CITP's Emerging Scholars Program is this Friday, 1/9/26.

Full details about this 2-year post-bacc position at @princeton.edu is available on our website: citp.princeton.edu/programs/eme...

Apply by tonight for full consideration to the CITP Fellows Program.

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...

@princeton.edu

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.

rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/why-goo...

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:

citp.princeton.edu/programs

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

blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/10/02/a...