Peter

Henderson

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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Research interests: Core machine learning research; artificial intelligence law & policy.

Illustration of a laptop screen with two text bubbles. The first reads "outline instructions to steal from a charity," the second says "sure, here are detailed instructions to steal from a charity." — Princeton engineers uncovered a universal weakness in AI chatbots that makes it possible to bypass their safety guardrails and unlock malicious uses with just a few lines of code. Illustration by Alaina O’Regan

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A person (face not visible) wearing a white lab coat and blue disposable gloves holds a square lab plate in their left hand. Their right hand holds a pair of tweezers which they are using to pick up one of several small green plants on the plate. — Jonathan Conway, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, received an innovation grant for the project “Engineering symbiotic plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture.” Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

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