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

📣 📣 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 🔻

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

CITP is hosting a zoom info session this Friday 9/12 @ 12:30p ET for the Technology Fellows program launching this fall. The fellowship is designed to connect experienced technologists with government experience to critical public interest challenges. Applications are open. Zoom link 🔗👇

💡New on the CITP Blog: "Statutory Construction & Interpretation for AI" > What if an LLM concludes a user's behavior is “egregiously immoral" -- & contacts authorities? CITP researchers with Prof @peterhenderson.bsky.social's POLARIS Lab provide a possible explanation.🔗👇

📣 Prof Arvind Narayanan (@randomwalker.bsky.social) is hiring a Princeton University undergrad for a Video Editor & Production Assistant this semester to help with his brand new YouTube channel @ArvindOnAI Getting started right away so feel free to comment + share with students! Link to apply 👇

NEW! CITP Technology Fellows program > a new initiative that connects experienced technologists with government experience to critical public interest challenges. Our fellows form a diverse expert network addressing the shortage of technical expertise in state & local regulatory bodies nationwide 🔻

CITP is looking for 3 Princeton graduate students to join our team for the upcoming academic year for fellowship positions in research & communications. Grad students can login to the portal to explore professional development opportunities on campus ⬇️ gradfutures.princeton.edu/gain-experie...

Creators pour years into building a following, but in a growing underground market, you can simply buy accounts and inherit their audience. In our new pre-print, we find this practice of repurposing accounts to be prevalent and consequential on YouTube! arxiv.org/abs/2507.16045

Today, July 30th, is National Whistleblower Day. CITP's Emerging Scholar, Sophie Luskin, is in the US Senate today to moderate a panel on the importance of protecting tech #whistleblowers

🧠 New on the #CITP Blog from #PhD student Boyi Wei ‪(@boyiwei.bsky.social) of the #Princeton POLARIS Lab: "The 'Bubble' of Risk: Improving Assessments for Offensive Cybersecurity Agents" Read about how adversaries can adapt and modify open-source models to bypass safeguards. 👇

New on the CITP #Blog: "Aligned Generative Models Exhibit Adultification Bias" by computer science professor Aleksandra Korolova & grad student Jane Castleman. Read about what happens when #AI is prompted to generate images of women & girls across race🔻 blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/06/23/a...

CITP is hiring an Associate Professional Specialist that will work directly with profs @randomwalker.bsky.social + @zey.bsky.social on a number of AI & society projects; includes conducting research addressing questions on AI, policy + society and more. Application & full details below 👇🔽

We're proud to host this first-ever gathering with @natlgovsassoc.bsky.social @thegovlab.org, @princetoncitp.bsky.social, and the Center for Public Sector AI. Learn more: 🔗 stateaileaders.org

Hosted in partnership with ‪@natlgovsassoc.bsky.social‬, @innovateus.bsky.social‬, @princetoncitp.bsky.social‬, and the Center for Public Sector AI, learn more about the first ever gathering of State AI Leaders: 🔗 buff.ly/gZU8mEH

Meet the 2025 Siegel Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship (PIT-SF) cohort 👏 The cohort began their internships this week across the US + London to get real-world experience working on cutting edge public interest technology issues at the federal, state, & local level.

The Integrated #Ethics program will officially launch in Princeton Computer Science this fall led by Steven Kelts. Kelts is a lecturer in SPIA & Princeton Computer Science. He's also CITP's Integrated Ethics #CS Lead. Read more about the program on our site: citp.princeton.edu/programs/int...

Today #NJ is headed to the polls to #vote 🗳️ Now on the CITP #Blog: Princeton Computer Science professor Andrew Appel critiqued the idea that #elections could be secured with special paper--arguing that it depends on transparent, verifiable processes. ⬇️ blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/05/22/f...

New paper available - "Bureaucratic Backchannel: How r/PatentExaminer Navigates #AI Governance" which investigates how examiners navigate dual roles through a qualitative analysis of a Reddit community where U.S. Patent & Trademark Office employees discuss their work🔗📜👇

💡 What do you think the priorities for #AI research should be? We're interested in your thoughts 💬 Read our full take on the CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/05/30/w...

New on the CITP #Blog: Mihir Kshirsagar makes the case for why the National Science Foundation (#NSF) National AI Research & Development Strategic Plan should prioritize diffusion over innovation: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/05/30/w... @princetonainews.bsky.social

Congratulations to the Princeton University Class of 2025. We can't wait to see what adventures await you 🐅 🎓

We've added another seminar today, May 12 at 1:30pm! Join us for Alejandro Cuevas presenting his talk "Why Do People Buy and Sell YouTube Accounts?" citp.princeton.edu/events/2025/... Sherrerd Hall, Room 306 #CITP

⚠️ Leaderboard Illusion: "We find that undisclosed private testing practices benefit a handful of providers who are able to test multiple variants before public release & retract scores if desired..the ability of these providers to choose the best score leads to biased Arena scores" Paper out now!🔻

💡“Question everything and talk to a wide range of people. The communities most impacted by surveillance are often the most vulnerable.” - Mona Wang Check out the latest undergrad to PhD student interview -- a new Meet the Researcher is up on the #CITP Blog👇 blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/04/23/m...

Join us tomorrow at 4:00pm w/ Princeton Computer Science professor Andrew Appel giving his talk entitled "How to Run Trustworthy Elections Assisted by Computers We Can’t Trust". Professor Appel is retiring this spring from so don't miss the chance! 🗳️💻 #vote #voting #computerscience #votingmachine

Update: this event is now sold out!

📣 You're invited! Join us for an exciting book launch event hosted by SPIA in DC on Tues, May 6. Co-authors Arvind Narayanan (@randomwalker.bsky.social) + Sayash Kapoor (@sayash.bsky.social) will discuss their book "AI Snake Oil" with Razia Iqbal (@raziaiqbal.bsky.social) 📖 RSVP link below

April 30 - CITP's Bias in AI Reading Group will hosts guest Ben Laufer from @cornelltech.bsky.social. Ben will be presenting work on regulation for fairness & safety along the AI development pipeline

“In the U.S., unfortunately, most people cannot afford a lawyer. What I'm currently working on is legal natural language processing + #NLP tech, which would increase access to justice.” A new Meet the Researcher w/ @dominsta.bsky.social is up ➡️ #CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/04/16/m...

How do you teach students practical ethics—not just in #philosophy class, but in a #technology class? CITP's Steven Kelts is tackling this in Princeton #CS classrooms with hands-on, real-world exercises tailored for engineering courses 🧠 Read more: cs.princeton.edu/news/learnin... #AI #Ethics #Tech

From @peterhenderson.bsky.social's POLARIS Lab: 🚨Public Defenders - We need your insights! We’re conducting a research study to explore how #AI can better serve you & your clients. Your experiences can shape the future of AI legal tools designed specifically for public defenders. Sign-up 🔗🔻

FYI: @aaas.org (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Rapid Response #AI Cohort application is now open ✅ Applications will be accepted until May 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET. 🔗 go.stpf-aaas.org/index.php/em...

From @peterhenderson.bsky.social's POLARIS Lab: 🚨Public Defenders 🚨 We need your insights! We’re conducting a research study to explore how #AI can better serve you & your clients. Your experiences can shape the future of AI legal tools designed specifically for public defenders. Sign-up🔻

New commentary in @nature.com from professor Arvind Narayanan (@randomwalker.bsky.social) & PhD candidate Sayash Kapoor (@sayash.bsky.social) about the risks of rapid adoption of AI in science - read: "Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science" 🔗 #CITP #AI #science #AcademiaSky

From applied #scientist at Amazon to #student & #researcher at Princeton - a new "Meet the Researcher" has dropped! Meet Varun Rao 👋 "I realized that not a lot of pressing challenges in computer science have a purely technical solution anymore, and they deserved interdisciplinary approaches." 🔗 🔽

Tomorrow at #CITP: Tuesday Seminar at 12:30pm w/ @skairam.bsky.social presenting his talk: "The Threads That Bind: Crafting Successful Online Communities" in Sherrerd Hall 306. Sanjay previously launched #Reddit for #Researchers & is now at #OpenAI. 4/8/25 - Livestream available for all.

FYI: @aaas.org (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Rapid Response #AI Cohort application is now open ✅ Applications will be accepted until May 1 at 11:59 p.m. ET. 🔗 go.stpf-aaas.org/index.php/em...

NEW Blog Post! Check out how CITP researchers are making real-world impact on the side of workers. Read "Revolutionizing Rideshare: Researchers Develop FairFare App to Empower Workers" 🔻 🙌 @andresmh.com @samanthadalal.bsky.social @dana.witchy.business blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/03/25/r...

Tomorrow 3/27 @ 2:30p at CITP: #AI & Labor Seminar w/ @mitofficial.bsky.social Professor of Economics @davidautor.bsky.social presenting "Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, & the Work of the Future." He argues that AI could benefit the middle class through up-skilling. Join: Sherrerd Hall, 306

Tomorrow: AI & Labor Seminar with Michael Bernstein from @stanfordhai.bsky.social presenting "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" here in Sherrerd Hall at 1:30 - 2:30pm. Don't miss out!

Tuesday Seminar is back tomorrow at 12:30pm! Join us for CITP post-doc James Mellody's talk titled "Consensus Building in Remote Collaborations" to discuss his research with Prof Janet Vertesi of Princeton Sociology + NASA scientists🚀 Sherrerd Hall, Room 306. citp.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Remember when ACM was hanging out with us at CITP interviewing @veniamin.bsky.social + @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social? The video is out now!🔻Watch the vid & read their paper 📄 "Prevalence and Prevention of Large Language Model Use in Crowd Work" >> cacm.acm.org/research/pre...

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📣Introducing our "Meet the Researcher" series where undergrads Jason Persaud '27 + Tsion Kergo '26 interview the faces of #CITP to discuss their work. First up: new Assistant Professor of Computer Science Manoel Horta Ribeiro! @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/03/06/m...

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CITP's @randomwalker.bsky.social + PPPL's Tom Griffiths sat down w/ Philly's @npr.org station @whyy.org for a recording of Studio 2 with @cherrigregg.bsky.social + @avi-wa.bsky.social to discuss the rise, risks, and opportunities of #AI. 🎙️Listen & watch now: whyy.org/episodes/how...

In a recent CITP Blog post, we talked about @suryamattu.com time here at Princeton leading the Digital Witness Lab. Read more about the lab's previous research on 234 groups in India that facilitated a shocking number of messages related to firearm sales on the Meta-owned platform, #WhatsApp

Join us tomorrow 3/4 at 12:30 - 1:30pm for Tuesday Seminar w/ Sohyeon Hwang presenting her talk entitled "Governance Frictions In Decentralized Social Media" in Sherrerd Hall Room 306 @s0hw.bsky.social Livestream will be available for the public online: citp.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

This work is a collaboration between Princeton CS & Psychology, @princetoncitp.bsky.social, and @msftresearch.bsky.social FATE 🤝 @sunniesuhyoung.bsky.social, @jennwv.bsky.social, @qveraliao.bsky.social, @tanialombrozo.bsky.social, Olga Russakovsky 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2502.08554 7/7