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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 […]…

Varun Satish is a Ph.D. student in demography at Princeton University. His current projects include using language models to study the life course, and using machine learning to uncover shifting perceptions of social class in the United States over the last 50 years. Satish is originally from Western Sydney, Australia. Princeton undergraduate Jason Persaud ‘27 […] The post Meet the Researcher: Va…

*The deadline has been updated to December 8, 2025 as of November 13, 2025. Applications are now open for Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) 2026-27 Fellows Program. Candidates are encouraged to apply by the start-of-review date of December 8*, 2025. The applications are open now (links are available below according to track) […] The post CITP Is Now Accepting …

Authored by Mihir Kshirsagar, Jeremy McKey, and Felix Chen On November 5, 2025, Princeton CITP and the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India (CGI), in partnership with AfricaNenda, will convene an interactive workshop at the Global DPI Summit 2025 to examine the difficult trade-offs governments face when designing national payment systems. The session, Hard Choices […] The post Hard Choices: CITP W…

Sam Hafferty is part of the 2024 – 2026 Emerging Scholar Program cohort at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP). Hafferty is contributing to work concerning data privacy regulation and broadband equity. Princeton undergraduate Jason Persaud ‘27 recently sat down with Hafferty to discuss how they got started in this type of work, […] The post Meet the Researcher: Sam Haffe…

Authored by: Mihir Kshirsagar This week, Open AI announced a multibillion dollar deal with Broadcom to develop custom AI chips for data centers projected to consume 10 gigawatts of power. This investment is separate from another multibillion dollar deal OpenAI struck with AMD last week. There is no question that we are in the midst of […] The post Lifespan of AI Chips: The $300 Billion Question a…

Authored by: Sofia Avila, Yasemin Savas, and Matthew Salganik U.S. adults in 2019 spent more than 6 hours a day using digital media. In 2021, 1/3 of American adults reported being constantly online. Despite the extensive time spent on social media, users often overlook how these platforms shape their attention, habits, and mood. Social media […] The post Our class spent 10-days self-experimenting…