In 2025, MrDeepfakes––long a central site for creating and trading AI-generated, non-consensual intimate images (NCII)––went offline. A week earlier, Congress passed S.126, the Take it Down Act, soon to become law. This bill makes publishing AI-generated NCII a federal crime and requires platforms to remove it within a strict…
Allison Carruth is a Professor in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton, where she directs the Program in Environmental Studies. She is the co-founder and faculty director of Blue Lab and was the founding director of UCLA’s Lab for Environmental Narrative Strategies…
2026 Book Talk: The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American FoundingOsita Nwanevu, contributing editor for The New Republic and a columnist for The GuardianThursday, February 12, 2026, from 4:30-5:45 p.m.Louis A. Simpson International Building, Bowl A71
AI agents are increasingly performing consequential tasks autonomously: writing code, making purchases, and providing advice. But how do we know when to trust them? Current evaluation focuses predominantly on success rates: how often does the agent complete the task? This misses critical questions about how agents behave: Do…
In this talk, Weila Gong will present findings from her book, Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities. Drawing on comparative case studies, process tracing, and over one hundred interviews with policy practitioners inside and outside the government, Gong opens the “black box” of subnational…
