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As part of the CITP Digital Investigators Conference, the public is invited to join us in person or virtually for this event. Please register here to attend in person. The livestream will be available here. Powerful new technologies like OpenAI’s “ChatGPT” or Google’s “Bard” have sparked excitement over the potential they have to transform how we work, learn and communicate for the better. But their potential harms also trigger fears and unease. As a result, the public discourse around such large language models (LLMs) can be noisy or chaotic. CITP has convened a panel of ex...

The bi-annual James Baldwin Lecture series was launched March 29, 2006, aiming to celebrate the work of Princeton faculty and to provide an occasion for the intellectual community to reflect on the issue of race and American democracy. The lectures also honor the work of the late essayist James Baldwin, one of America’s most powerful cultural critics. Discrimination is obvious to the people facing discrimination. Given this, do we even need quantitative studies to test if it exists? Regardless of the answer, quantitative studies such as ProPublica’s “Machine Bias” have had a galvanizin...

It is well known that digital ads violate privacy, yet we know little about their content. Digital ads are of increasingly low-quality, and often contain manipulative and deceptive components to lure users into viewing potentially harmful content. Such harmful content can range from disinformation or hyper-partisan websites all the way to products with questionable claims/value like health products or payday loans. Further, many such types of ads appeal to vulnerable populations like children, older adults, and low-income individuals—all of which calls for more public scrutiny into their co...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On February 10, 2021, acting Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter delivered a keynote address on “Protecting Consumer Privacy in a Time of Crisis” 1 at the Future of Privacy Forum’s annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers event. She laid out her views on how the FTC can make its privacy and data security enforcement more efficient and effective, and identified areas that the FTC should focus on under the new administration. President Biden designated Ms. Slaughter acting chairwoman of the FTC at th...

The Technology 202: Social media is playing a central role in Trump's second impeachment trial Cat Zakrzewski with Aaron Schaffer Tweets and cellphone videos are central to House impeachment managers’ case against former president Donald Trump.  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) began the trial with a graphic 13-minute video that drew on social media footage and Trump’s own tweets to establish the chronological order of the events of Jan. 6. The presentation set the stage for the House impeachment managers' case that the former commander in chief incited the violent attack o...