Princeton Engineering - What happens when social media users take back control? Social media feeds are populated by algorithms designed to keep users engaged. Now, researchers at Princeton are studying what happens when users can

📲 Researchers at @princetoncitp.bsky.social have created a social media tool that allows users to build their own social media feeds from scratch.

Meet Bonsai. 🌳

If you're at #CHI26 like most of CITP this week, be sure to check out postdoctoral researcher Sohyeon Hwang's (@s0hw.bsky.social) presentation "Community Governance and Moderation" on Friday morning 🔻

Read the story from @princeton.edu Computer Science: www.cs.princeton.edu/news/what-ha...

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What if you could have more agency over your social media feed? CITP researchers have built Bonsai to explore what happens when users can have that control. Try the app now on @bsky.app! getbonsai.org

Team: @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social @andresmh.com @mariannealq.bsky.social Omar El Malki

EVENTS: citp.princeton.edu/events

There will not be a Tues Seminar 4/14 (most of CITP is at ACM CHI in Barcelona!) however, join us instead today for:

✅Undergraduate info session for the new CITP Minor @ 12pm

✅Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social + CITP lecture📍PUAM @ 4:30pm w/ Prof @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI

4/14: Art historian @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social (UMass Amherst) talks on non-generative AI—particularly computer vision—as a driving force behind the AI industry's most profitable ventures, & the role art historians in museums & universities have played, wittingly and unwittingly, in its development.

Marianne Aubin Le Quéré - Balancing Epistemic Truth with Wellbeing in the Age of Generative AI In a democratic society, people need to be normatively informed about current events to take civic action like voting, protesting, and organizing. In today’s AI-mediated information ecosystem, civic i...

4/7 Tuesday Seminar: @mariannealq.bsky.social presenting "Balancing Epistemic Truth with Wellbeing in the Age of Generative AI". Aubin Le Quéré is an incoming assistant professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Sherrerd, 306.

Livestream: citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

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For @princeton.edu undergrads:

RSVP online: citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

CITP is not hosting a seminar on Tuesday, March 31 & instead is encouraging participation at the Department of Computer Science's Distinguished Colloquium Series with professor and former dean of Princeton Engineering Maria Klawe at 12:10pm.

📍Friend Center

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Calling all federal employees! 📢 Today is the last day to apply to the upcoming AI Precepts in Washington, DC this spring. Full details and application🔻

mailchi.mp/princeton.ed...

Dean's Leadership Series: Amandeep Singh Gill, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Join us for a moderated conversation with Amandeep Singh Gill, the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies and former Ambassador of India to the Conference on Disarm...

SPIA @princeton.edu will host Amandeep Gill, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Digital & Emerging Technologies, in conversation with Professor Arvind Narayanan next Wed, March 25 at 12:15pm.

Register: spia.princeton.edu/events/deans...

📍Robertson Hall

AI x Journalism: Transforming the News — Journalism Join the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) for this special event on how artificial intelligence is changing journalism and n...

In a panel on 3/26 from the Humanities Council & @princetoncitp.bsky.social, experts will share how AI is already impacting all aspects of the field of journalism – from national to small local newsrooms to data analysis, gathering and checking facts, ensuring source security, and what’s to come.

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Hilke Schellmann, visiting research scholar at @princetoncitp.bsky.social joins Trevor Noah on the "What Now?" podcast "to examine how artificial intelligence has quietly infiltrated the workplace."

🎧: https://bit.ly/47wxezB

📣 Calling all federal gov't employees: CITP + SPIA DC are hosting two AI Precepts. The Precepts offer presentations by
@princeton.edu experts, followed by interactive case studies of real-world AI implementation scenarios.

Apply by Friday, 3/20: mailchi.mp/princeton.ed...

📣 Introducing the New CITP Non-Resident Technology Fellows 2026 Cohort: Varun Gadh, AmandaLenhart, Adam Pickersgill, Cory Scott, Faiz Surani, and Christine Tsang.

Read their bios and more about the program on the CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/03/04/i...

@s0hw.bsky.social

Thursday 3/5 at 2:00 - 3:00pm Claudia Lo of @wikimediafoundation.org will be a special guest at Professor Andrés Monroy-Hernández's (@andresmh.com) class 🔻

Open to Princeton U faculty, staff, and students.

📍Sherrerd Hall, 306

3/3 Tuesday Seminar w/ Prof Nikhil Garg (@nkgarg.bsky.social) of Cornell Tech presenting his talk "Recommendations in the NYC High School Match (and other high-stakes settings)" in Sherrerd 306.

Livestream available. Get here a few mins early for lunch. 12:15pm.

citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

While the winter may feel never-ending this year, at least the CITP grad students are having some fun on campus at
@princeton.edu
❄️

📸: Patty Liu, Kara Schechtman, @nimranadeem.bsky.social, @inhwa.bsky.social

Tuesday Seminar 2/24 at 12:15pm with CITP postdoc @mirandawei.bsky.social presenting her talk "Harm is Not an Anomaly nor a Reason to Despair: Combating Image-based Sexual Abuse (+ More)"

Livestream not available; come early for lunch & a chat.
📍Sherrerd Hall 306

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AI enters the exam room, and nurses are left to manage the fallout When alerts misfire or can’t explain themselves, nurses still carry the risk

What happens when you introduce AI into the emergency room?

"When alerts misfire or can’t explain themselves, nurses still carry the risk." - written by CITP Visiting Fellow
Hilke Schellmann in @sciam.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-i...

Congratulations to Sayash Kapoor on being awarded the Jacobus Fellowship, the highest honor bestowed on a graduate student at @princeton.edu. Kapoor will be honored in a ceremony this weekend.

engineering.princeton.edu/news/2026/02...

@sayash.bsky.social

Did you know that computer-generated nonconsensual intimate imagery (i.e., deepfake porn) is now a federal crime, with jail time? Research @princetoncitp.bsky.social is investigating the efficacy of regulatory measures like the Take It Down Act (S. 146) against AI-enabled sexual violence.

2/17 Tuesday Seminar will be presented by CITP postdoctoral researcher Alejandro Cuevas with his talk "Deepfakes are Dead, Long Live the Deepfakes" to discuss legislative implications on non-consensual intimate images (NCII).

📍lunch + Sherrerd Hall, 306 @ 12:15pm
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Jamie Wong: Scaling Startups with Growth Rituals: Venture Capitalism, Temporal Capital, and Protracted Liminality This talk focuses on the political economy of venture capital as context for "technological innovation." Successful startups grow from concepts into companies reaching billions in valuation within a f...

2/3 Tuesday Seminar with @princeton.edu professor of anthropology Jamie Wong presenting her talk on the political economy of venture capital as context for “technological innovation".

Join us a few minutes early for lunch; seminar at 12:15pm.

Note: No recording/livestream will be available.

Max Springer - A Geometric Perspective on LLM Behavior As large language models (LLMs) proliferate, understanding their emergent behaviors remains a central challenge. This talk proposes a framework for interpreting LLM behavior through the lens of geomet...

Tuesday Seminars begin again for the semester tomorrow 1/27 with Max Springer's (@maxspringer.bsky.social) talk entitled "A Geometric Perspective on LLM Behavior".

citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Get here early for a sandwich & a chat. Begins promptly at 12:15. Sherrerd 306.

Livestreamed.