The Princeton CITP Newsletter

CITP HIGHLIGHTS

Researchers Narayanan and Kapoor Make TIME's Inaugural 100/AI List

Indian Journalist Selected as First-Ever Digital Witness Fellow

Machine Learning and Law Expert Peter Henderson to Join CITP in '24

🚨🚨  JOB ALERT 🚨🚨

RESEARCH & POLICY NOTES

• CITP associated faculty member Andrew W. Appel, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science, coauthored 24 for ’24: Urgent Recommendations in Law, Media, Politics, and Tech for Fair and Legitimate 2024 U.S. Elections as part of the Ad Hoc Committee for 2024 Election Fairness and Legitimacy.
• Professor Appel has also authored A reasonably priced Ballot On Demand system from Hart Intercivic on CITP's Freedom to Tinker blog.

MEDIA MENTIONS

• Mihir Kshirsagar, CITP Tech Policy Clinic lead, was quoted in The Atlantic article
  Three Simple Rules for Protecting Your Data.
• Olga Russakovsky, a CITP associated faculty member, was quoted in the San Jose Spotlight column Silver Taube: The dangers of AI in the workplace.
• CITP Director Arvind Narayanan and CITP graduate student Sayash Kapoor were cited in The Daily Princetonian article Prominent AI fairness advocates among Princeton AI luminaries, which also cites the work of CITP researchers Shazeda Ahmed and CITP associated faculty members Aleksandra Korolova and Olga Russakovsky.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• TODAY: Tuesday, September 19: CITP Seminar: Shazeda Ahmed – The Epistemic Culture of AI Safety, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 306 Sherrerd Hall
• Tuesday, September 26: CITP Seminar: Alice Marwick – Beyond the Binary: How LGBTQ+ People Negotiate Networked Privacy, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 306 Sherrerd Hall
• Tuesday, September 26: AI@Princeton: Launch event for Princeton Language and Intelligence, a multidisciplinary initiative focused on large AI models. Speakers include CITP Director Arvind Narayanan, CITP associated faculty members Olga Troyanskaya and Brandon Stewart and Princeton Provost Jennifer Rexford, 3-6 p.m., McCosh 50, McCosh Hall.
• Friday, September 29: Princeton Precision Health Fall Symposium, a free, all-day symposium on interdisciplinary, data-driven approaches to precision medicine. Speakers include CITP associated faculty members Adji Bousso Dieng, Molly Crockett, Olga Russakovsky, Olga Troyanskaya, Provost Jennifer Rexford, and CITP Director Arvind Narayanan. Register here for breakfast, lunch and closing reception.
• Tuesday, October 3: CITP Seminar: Surya Mattu – Breaking The Black Box: How CITP’s Digital Witness Lab Uses Data-Driven Investigations to Expose Surveillance and Misinformation, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 306 Sherrerd Hall
• Tuesday, October 10: CITP Seminar: Dan Calacci – Why Data Rights Should be Labor Rights: Data Protection and AI Regulation for Gig Workers and Beyond, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 306 Sherrerd Hall
• Tuesday, October 24: CITP Seminar: Eszter Hargittai – Older Adults and Social Media: Opportunities and Challenges, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 306 Sherrerd Hall
• Wednesday, October 25, 2023: Special Events LLM Forum: A Conversation with Meredith Whittaker. Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker and CITP Director Arvind Narayanan discuss the implications that large language models (LLMs) have on our understanding of language, society, culture and theory of mind, 4:30-6 p.m., 101 Friend Center.