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Authors: Dominik Stammbach, Peter Henderson In a speech at the NJ AI Summit on April 11, 2024, Phil Murphy, then-Governor of New Jersey, announced his support for a new partnership between Princeton University and New Jersey’s Office of the Public Defender (NJOPD). “Together, they are working to build an AI-powered resource that will help our […] The post Princeton’s CITP and the NJ Office of the…

Authored by Kylie Zhang, Nimra Nadeem, Lucia Zheng, Dominik Stammbach, Peter HendersonIn a recent TED Talk, Supreme Court attorney Neal Katyal describes how he prepared for his Supreme Court oral arguments in Learning Resources v. Trump, the 2025 tariffs case. Katyal says that he was guided in his journey by four mentors: sports coach Bob, […] The post Facts & Fictions: Is AI-Assisted Oral Argume…

Summary:  All the voting machines that counties and states bought before 2025 complied with standards (e.g., VVSG 1.0 or 1.1) that were extremely weak on cybersecurity, and indeed most of those voting systems were easy to hack (make them cheat in elections) and their back-end databases were easy to alter (to change vote totals).  Now […] The post New Voting Machine Purchases Should Be VVSG 2.0 Ce…

Authored by: Hayoung Jung Recently, I was talking with some family members from South Korea who mentioned their back pain. My immediate question: “What did the doctor say?” Healthcare is highly accessible and affordable in South Korea, so I assumed they had already seen one.  Nope. They asked ChatGPT. In all honesty, this was not […] The post AI Is Already Giving Medical Conclusions. Are They Any…

Miranda Wei studies online abuse and societal factors in sociotechnical safety, especially concerning social media, gender, and interpersonal relationships. Their research interests lie at the intersections of computer security and privacy (S&P), human-computer interaction (HCI), and feminist science and technology studies (STS). Wei recently sat down with Princeton undergraduate Grace Ding ’29 t…

Authored by : Patty Liu, Dominik Stammbach, Peter Henderson 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 citations from self-represented (pro se) litigants and lawyers alike. Fabricating citations, or misrepresenting the content of those citation…

Analysis by: Jane Castleman, Sam Hafferty, Steven Kelts, Arvind Narayanan, Francesco Salvi, Hilke Schellmann Edited by: Sam Hafferty, Steven Kelts, Arvind Narayanan, Hilke Schellmann The Trump administration has made artificial intelligence a centerpiece of its economic agenda, promising to retrain a workforce it says must be ready to compete in an AI-driven future. One early […] The post Make Am…

Last year, three Princeton University’s undergraduate students in SPIA’s Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic — Sabrina Johnston, Sander McComiskey, Jeana Raphael — wrote a report titled “Age Assurance Techniques and the New York SAFE for Kids Act” for a policy taskforce taught by Mihir Kshirsagar that analyzed eight prominent age assurance techniques to assess whether those […] The post Policy Stude…

The Georgia legislature recently passed a law banning QR-code ballots in vote tabulation, which is a step in the right direction. But the Georgia Secretary of State’s response is a plan to continue using QR-code ballots, to “tabulate” or “verify” the election results based on uploading the digital ballot images for optical-character recognition. This plan is insecure […] The post Ballot tabulatio…

Authored by Mihir Kshirsagar Observers invoke railroad, electricity, and telecom precedents when contextualizing the current generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) infrastructure boom—usually to debate whether or when we are heading for a crash. But these discussions miss an important pattern that held across all three prior cycles: when the bubbles burst, investors lost money but society […]…