Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy

tldr: we made a newsroom guide which outlines our recently published report on information integrity - "Holding the Line: Authentication, Verification, and the Fight for Facts in the AI Age" 🧠 blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/08/07/n...

The New Jersey Office of Public Defenders is using AI to tackle one of law’s most time-consuming tasks: drafting briefs. In partnership with @princeton.edu CITP researchers, NJ agencies are adopting a new platform designed to help public defenders work more efficiently: njbiz.com/nj-public-de...

The New Jersey Office of Public Defenders is using AI to tackle one of law’s most time-consuming tasks: drafting briefs. In partnership with @princeton.edu CITP researchers, NJ agencies are adopting a new platform designed to help public defenders work more efficiently: njbiz.com/nj-public-de...

CITP's @dominsta.bsky.social + @peterhenderson.bsky.social for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: Why Public Defense Should Incorporate AI Carefully 🔻 www.techpolicy.press/why-public-d...

We've published a new report - "Holding the Line: Authentication, Verification, & the Fight for Facts in the AI Age"👇 It aims to serve as a bridge across different actors in the increasingly complex information ecosystem & their work of verifying info: citp.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

Say hello to CITP folks at @ic2s2.bsky.social this week if you're there!

From CITP postdoctoral researcher Marianne Aubin Le Quéré (@mariannealq.bsky.social) - "Do We Ban Social Media? Maybe Not" 👇 psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... Aubin Le Quéré is an incoming faculty member at @uofillinois.bsky.social Urbana-Champaign.

Tomorrow at 12:00 - 2:00pm at CITP: Sayash Kapoor's final public oral (FPO) presenting his dissertation "The Missing Science of AI Evaluation". FPOs are open to the public; zoom link available: citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Is AI really the reason why companies are laying off workers? Recently, Sayash Kapoor (@sayash.bsky.social) spoke to @npr.org's @steveinskeep.bsky.social to give his take on why these layoffs might be a "convenient excuse" for many of these companies. Listen for free 👇 www.npr.org/transcripts/...

💡New on the CITP Blog: Is AI-Assisted Oral Argument Preparation Worth the Hype? "We found that the best AI simulators actually perform surprisingly well. But we also found very significant shortcomings." blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/06/24/f...

Introducing the new 2026 Siegel Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship cohort! ✨ Read about them and where they'll be interning this summer: citp.princeton.edu/pit-summer-f...

❓Can AI reduce burdens on courts by automatically verifying citations? Now on the CITP Blog, researchers Patty Liu, @dominsta.bsky.social, and Prof @peterhenderson.bsky.social investigate LLM-hallucinated legal citations in court documents 🔻 blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/05/27/c...

For those coming back to @princeton.edu for alumni Reunions this week, don't miss this talk on Friday at 11:15am - 12:30pm! Details and map online: citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

From CITP postdoc @aedcv.bsky.social Alejandro Cuevas on @techpolicypress.bsky.social: "It’s Too Soon To Tell If the TAKE IT DOWN ACT Is Working" 🔻 Cuevas researches dark parts of the internet: deepfakes, disinformation, propaganda mills & darkweb marketplaces: www.techpolicy.press/its-too-soon...

The US Department of Labor has put out a new, free AI literacy course. Princeton CITP analyzed it blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/05/05/m...

Join us for the last Tuesday Seminar of the semester on 4/28 with PU sociology professor Janet Vertesi presenting her talk titled "Where Fairness Fails: How to Confront the Material Political Economy of AI" at 12:15pm. 📍Sherrerd Hall 306 Livestream: citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Try the researcher-created social media feed curator app, Bonsai, right now on Bluesky 📲 getbonsai.org Read about the CITP team 👇

📲 Researchers at @princetoncitp.bsky.social have created a social media tool that allows users to build their own social media feeds from scratch. Meet Bonsai. 🌳

If you're at #CHI26 like most of CITP this week, be sure to check out postdoctoral researcher Sohyeon Hwang's (@s0hw.bsky.social) presentation "Community Governance and Moderation" on Friday morning 🔻

4/14: Art historian @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social (UMass Amherst) talks on non-generative AI—particularly computer vision—as a driving force behind the AI industry's most profitable ventures, & the role art historians in museums & universities have played, wittingly and unwittingly, in its development.

4/7 Tuesday Seminar: @mariannealq.bsky.social presenting "Balancing Epistemic Truth with Wellbeing in the Age of Generative AI". Aubin Le Quéré is an incoming assistant professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Sherrerd, 306. Livestream: citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

For @princeton.edu undergrads: RSVP online: citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

CITP is not hosting a seminar on Tuesday, March 31 & instead is encouraging participation at the Department of Computer Science's Distinguished Colloquium Series with professor and former dean of Princeton Engineering Maria Klawe at 12:10pm. 📍Friend Center citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Calling all federal employees! 📢 Today is the last day to apply to the upcoming AI Precepts in Washington, DC this spring. Full details and application🔻 mailchi.mp/princeton.ed...

SPIA @princeton.edu will host Amandeep Gill, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Digital & Emerging Technologies, in conversation with Professor Arvind Narayanan next Wed, March 25 at 12:15pm. Register: spia.princeton.edu/events/deans... 📍Robertson Hall

In a panel on 3/26 from the Humanities Council & @princetoncitp.bsky.social, experts will share how AI is already impacting all aspects of the field of journalism – from national to small local newsrooms to data analysis, gathering and checking facts, ensuring source security, and what’s to come.

Hilke Schellmann, visiting research scholar at @princetoncitp.bsky.social joins Trevor Noah on the "What Now?" podcast "to examine how artificial intelligence has quietly infiltrated the workplace." 🎧: https://bit.ly/47wxezB

📣 Calling all federal gov't employees: CITP + SPIA DC are hosting two AI Precepts. The Precepts offer presentations by @princeton.edu experts, followed by interactive case studies of real-world AI implementation scenarios. Apply by Friday, 3/20: mailchi.mp/princeton.ed...

📣 Introducing the New CITP Non-Resident Technology Fellows 2026 Cohort: Varun Gadh, AmandaLenhart, Adam Pickersgill, Cory Scott, Faiz Surani, and Christine Tsang. Read their bios and more about the program on the CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/03/04/i...

3/3 Tuesday Seminar w/ Prof Nikhil Garg (@nkgarg.bsky.social) of Cornell Tech presenting his talk "Recommendations in the NYC High School Match (and other high-stakes settings)" in Sherrerd 306. Livestream available. Get here a few mins early for lunch. 12:15pm. citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

While the winter may feel never-ending this year, at least the CITP grad students are having some fun on campus at @princeton.edu ❄️ 📸: Patty Liu, Kara Schechtman, @nimranadeem.bsky.social, @inhwa.bsky.social

Tuesday Seminar 2/24 at 12:15pm with CITP postdoc @mirandawei.bsky.social presenting her talk "Harm is Not an Anomaly nor a Reason to Despair: Combating Image-based Sexual Abuse (+ More)" Livestream not available; come early for lunch & a chat. 📍Sherrerd Hall 306 citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

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. engineering.princeton.edu/news/2026/02... @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 citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

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". citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/... Get here early for a sandwich & a chat. Begins promptly at 12:15. Sherrerd 306. Livestreamed.

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 🔻