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Do chatbots help Texans bet on elections?
Authors: Tanvi Prem, Mihir Kshirsagar (Princeton University) Image courtesy Barron’s. As people turn to AI chatbots with election questions, we are studying the effectiveness of their guardrails. In this post, we evaluate how well chatbot responses incorporate state-level…
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Voting machines left unattended, as usual
Earlier this month I was in a Vietnamese restaurant near my office. As the waiter brought water, napkin, and chopsticks, he dropped the chopsticks (still in their paper wrapper) on the floor. So he picked up the chopsticks, returned them to the bin with all the other chopsticks…
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Organizing and Automating Poll Tape Auditing
(Part 3 of a 3-part series) In previous articles in this series, I’ve explained that any member of the public can witness the poll tapes printed by voting machines when the polls close—in at least 30 states. Other states have more restrictive rules. To make this practice…
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Compare the Poll Tapes Against the Precinct-by-Precinct Election Results
(part 2 of a 3-part series) In most states, the county election administrator publishes election results with vote totals for each candidate broken down by precinct. Here’s an example from Mercer County, New Jersey, from the 2024 General Election (click on Detail XLS, Detail…
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Publish the Poll Tapes
(Part 1 of a 3-part series) If we are worried that hacked (or unintentionally misconfigured) voting systems might incorrectly count the ballots, there are three parts to the voting system that we should worry about: If the voting machines are hacked, or misconfigured, then the…
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AI Election Policy
Authors: Tanvi Prem, Mihir Kshirsagar (Princeton University) Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As we enter the midterm election cycle, there is growing evidence that Americans are turning to AI chatbots for election-related information. A 2026 Pew Research Center survey found…
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Does the Current AI Buildout Depend on an Automation Agenda?
Authors: Mihir Kshirsagar (Princeton University) Data centers in Ashburn, VA. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Arvind Narayanan kicked off CITP’s seminar series for the academic year by arguing that we should invest in augmentation rather than automation for AI development. I…
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Making Community Governance Legible: A Semester with Bonfire
By Sohyeon Hwang Authors: Sohyeon Hwang (Princeton University), Andrés Monroy-Hernández (Princeton University) Most of us have spent the last two decades living inside platforms we have little control over. A handful of companies tune algorithms, moderate content, and set…
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After Math
By Eamon Duede Authors: Silvia De Toffoli (University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia), Eamon Duede (Princeton University and Purdue University) Note: This post was originally shared on Terry Tao’s blog, linked here for further reading. On September 8th, 2026, OpenAI…
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CITP Welcomes 2026-27 Fellows
The Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) welcomes our incoming Visiting Faculty, Postdoctoral Associates, and Emerging Scholars for the 2026-27 academic year! Graduate student bios will be shared on the blog shortly. 2026 CITP Visiting Faculty Eamon Duede…