Policy

Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI
United Nations, 2026. Scientific consultant: synthesized input from the 40-member panel into the report text; drafting subsequent addenda.

Modeling Single-Transferable Vote for the California Legislature
Data & Democracy Lab, 2025. Voting-systems modeling contributor.

In the News

The Associated Press (September 2026): The secret ballot has been an article of faith in US elections. That's being tested in Georgia
By Kate Brumback. Republished by Fortune, The Christian Science Monitor, WSB-TV, Boston 25, and others.

Fortune (September 2026): AI could exploit a flaw in Georgia's voting equipment and match voters to their ballots

WALB / WRDW (September 2026): Ga. ballot system can let someone see how you voted

For media inquiries: maxspringer [at] princeton [dot] edu

Writing

I have written over a dozen articles for Scientific American as a 2024 AAAS Mass Media Fellow and contributor, including:

• New Knot Theory Discovery Overturns Long-Held Mathematical Assumption (September 2025)

• New Proof Dramatically Compresses Space Needed for Computation (June 2025)

• The Wild and Contentious History of Mathematical Symbols (February 2025)

• The 'Stable Marriage Problem' Solution Underpins Dating Apps and School Admissions (October 2024)

• Can One Chatbot Catch Another's Lies? (July 2024)

I also volunteer as an editor for Street Sense Media, Washington, DC's street newspaper.