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...
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
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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.
Say hello to CITP folks at @ic2s2.bsky.social this week if you're there!
Headed to @ic2s2.bsky.social today!! Excited to meet old friends and make new ones! Come say hi! Also, bringing most of my lab with me for the first time! (The dog remained at @princetoncitp.bsky.social to supervise the remaining lab members) #IC2S2
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.
Do We Ban Social Media? Maybe Not
We can put online users in the driver's seat instead.
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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/...
Sayash Kapoor: Final Public Oral (FPO) The Missing Science of AI Evaluation
AI evaluations inform critical decisions, from the valuations of trillion-dollar companies to policies on regulating AI. Yet, evaluation methods have failed to keep pace with deployment, creating an e...
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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/...
Computer scientist on why he believes mass layoffs due to AI is a 'convenient excuse'
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Princeton computer scientist Sayash Kapoor about his assertions that AI won't lead to mass layoffs.
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💡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...
Facts & Fictions: Is AI-Assisted Oral Argument Preparation Worth the Hype? - CITP Blog
Given the facts of a recent 2025 case, the legal question, and the oral argument so far, we task an AI-simulator with predicting what a specific justice would say next.
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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...
Can AI reduce burdens on courts by automatically verifying citations? - CITP Blog
Fabricated case citations generated by AI are appearing in court filings at an accelerating rate. Combined with other tracking efforts, we have identified over 1,000 filings containing hallucinated ci...
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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/...
The Societal Impact of AI: A Conversation with Brad Smith ’81 and Arvind Narayanan
Join us for an engaging and timely conversation on The Societal Impacts of AI, featuring Brad Smith ’81, vice chair and president of Microsoft, and Arvind Narayanan, professor of computer science and ...
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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...
It’s Too Soon To Tell If the TAKE IT DOWN ACT Is Working
The deepfake pornography ecosystem as a whole has only seemed to expand, writes Alejandro Cuevas.
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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...
Make America AI Ready: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Recommendations - CITP Blog
A free text-message course from the Department of Labor (DOL) and private partner Arist called, “Make America AI-Ready”, is a useful start on the journey to AI literacy for all Americans.
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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 👇
Bonsai
Bonsai is a research system that replaces black-box engagement models with intentional, natural language-based curation.
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Read the story from @princeton.edu Computer Science: www.cs.princeton.edu/news/what-ha...
Undergrads 📣 Friday 12pm to 2:15pm, CITP & the Pace Center for Civic Engagement are hosting a cross-disciplinary jam lunch session to build educational materials that can help inform citizens of their rights under the recently effective New Jersey Data Privacy Law. RSVP: forms.gle/LnT7FncSHbeH...
📲 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. 🌳
Princeton Engineering - What happens when social media users take back control?
Social media feeds are populated by algorithms designed to keep users engaged. Now, researchers at Princeton are studying what happens when users can
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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 🔻
🏃♀️ homestretch! start your last day at #CHI2026 at the "Community Governance and Moderation" 9AM session tomorrow in Room 114 🤠 I'll be presenting our new work envisioning how we can make community-run social media more sustainable through a "community of communities": dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
What if you could have more agency over your social media feed? CITP researchers have built Bonsai to explore what happens when users can have that control. Try the app now on @bsky.app! getbonsai.org Team: @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social @andresmh.com @mariannealq.bsky.social Omar El Malki
There will not be a Tues Seminar 4/14 (most of CITP is at ACM CHI in Barcelona!) however, join us instead today for: ✅Undergraduate info session for the new CITP Minor @ 12pm ✅Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social + CITP lecture📍PUAM @ 4:30pm w/ Prof @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
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.
Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI
Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI
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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/...
Marianne Aubin Le Quéré - Balancing Epistemic Truth with Wellbeing in the Age of Generative AI
In a democratic society, people need to be normatively informed about current events to take civic action like voting, protesting, and organizing. In today’s AI-mediated information ecosystem, civic i...
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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
Dean's Leadership Series: Amandeep Singh Gill, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Join us for a moderated conversation with Amandeep Singh Gill, the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies and former Ambassador of India to the Conference on Disarm...
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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.
AI x Journalism: Transforming the News — Journalism
Join the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) for this special event on how artificial intelligence is changing journalism and n...
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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...
Thursday 3/5 at 2:00 - 3:00pm Claudia Lo of @wikimediafoundation.org will be a special guest at Professor Andrés Monroy-Hernández's (@andresmh.com) class 🔻 Open to Princeton U faculty, staff, and students. 📍Sherrerd Hall, 306