Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
@princetoncitp.bsky.social
The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, & the social sciences. Our researchers work to better understand and improve the relationship between technology & society. Princeton U.
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 👇
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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 👇
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 🔗👇
Bak-Coleman is a collective behavior scientist at UW and a fellow at the Santa Fe Institute (@sfiscience.bsky.social)
Livestream available 🔗👇
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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 🔗👇
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/...
Registration is available online: ai.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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/...
Registration is available online: ai.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
@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.princeton.edu/programs
October 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
@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.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...
➡️ Postdoctoral Research Associate
➡️ Visiting Research Scholar (Visiting Professional)
➡️ Microsoft Visiting Research Scholar (Visiting Professor)
Apply online: citp.princeton.edu/news/2025/no...
October 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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...
➡️ Postdoctoral Research Associate
➡️ Visiting Research Scholar (Visiting Professional)
➡️ Microsoft Visiting Research Scholar (Visiting Professor)
Apply online: citp.princeton.edu/news/2025/no...
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.
Come early to get a seat, lunch, & chat. Sherrerd Hall, Room 306. Open to P-Uni.
🚫No livestream available.
September 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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.
Come early to get a seat, lunch, & chat. Sherrerd Hall, Room 306. Open to P-Uni.
🚫No livestream available.
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 🎉
www.cs.princeton.edu/news/five-co...
www.cs.princeton.edu/news/five-co...
September 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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 🎉
www.cs.princeton.edu/news/five-co...
www.cs.princeton.edu/news/five-co...
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
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
September 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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
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
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
Professor Bloch-Wehba is legal scholar from Texas A&M School of Law & a visiting fellow at CITP this fall.
Sherrerd Hall, Room 306
September 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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
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 🔗👇
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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! 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 🔻
August 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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 🔻
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
July 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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. 👇
Read about how adversaries can adapt and modify open-source models to bypass safeguards. 👇
July 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🧠 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. 👇
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...
Read about what happens when #AI is prompted to generate images of women & girls across race🔻
blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/06/23/a...
June 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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...
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 👇🔽
June 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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 👇🔽
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.
June 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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.
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...
June 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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🔗📜👇
June 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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...
Read our full take on the CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/05/30/w...
June 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
💡 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...
Read our full take on the CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/05/30/w...
Congratulations to the Princeton University Class of 2025. We can't wait to see what adventures await you 🐅 🎓
May 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Congratulations to the Princeton University Class of 2025. We can't wait to see what adventures await you 🐅 🎓
⚠️ 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!🔻
Paper out now!🔻
May 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
⚠️ 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!🔻
Paper out now!🔻
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
April 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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
📣 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
RSVP link below
April 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
📣 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
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
April 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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
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
Read more: cs.princeton.edu/news/learnin... #AI #Ethics #Tech
April 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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
Read more: cs.princeton.edu/news/learnin... #AI #Ethics #Tech