Casey Fiesler is an associate professor and the William R. Payden Endowed Professor in the Department of Information Science (and Computer Science, by courtesy) at the University of Colorado Boulder.  Armed with a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School, she primarily researches technology ethics and law, human-computer-interaction, and online communities (occasionally all at the same time). [curriculum vitae]

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NEWS

11.22.25 I spoke to CNN about AI-generated content and AI policies on Pinterest.

11.13.25 I was the keynote speaker for the ALA Core Forum Conference in Denver. My talk was titled “The Librarian’s Dividend: Pathways towards Information Ethics and Literacy in the Age of Generative AI.”

11.07.25 I helped organize and was on a panel for the AI and the Future of Copyright Politics conference at the CU Boulder Law School’s Silicon Flatirons Center.

10.19.25 I gave a keynote talk for the “Ethical Challenges in Research with Online Communities Workshop” at the ACM CSCW conference in Bergen, Norway.

09.23.25 I ran sessions devoted to AI ethics and spoke on a panel related to the future of AI in libraries at the Arapahoe Libraries annual staff development event.

09.01.25 The book that I co-authored with Jonathan Lazar, Brian Wentz, and Raja Kushalnagar, Human-Computer Interaction and U.S. Law, is officially up on Cambridge University Press’ website, and will be released at the end of December!

08.28.25 I spoke to NPR about “AI slop” and YouTube’s policies regarding “inauthentic” content.

08.15.25 I was quoted in an article in MIT Technology Review about how people experienced grief following OpenAI’s model update.

08.06.25 My collaborators Michael Zimmer, Jessica Vitak, and I will be writing a regular column about research ethics for the ACM SIGCHI newsletter, and the first one just launched.

08.04.25 I officially launched my online AI ethics syllabus, which is a mostly post-hoc curation of short form videos about AI ethics and policy that I’ve shared online. This document is a work in progress, but my hope is that it can be a resources for both teachers and learners!

08.03.25 A new paper I co-authored (led by University of Michigan PhD candidate Aadarsh Padiyath) was published as part of the ICER computer science education conference: “Validation of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index: Do Computing Ethics Courses Make a Difference?“

07.15.25 I spoke about AI and its impacts on society to a group of middle and high school students as part of the St Vrain Valley School District’s Innovation Center’s STEM summer camp.

07.09.25 I spoke on Engaging with Science Policy Through Traditional and New Media as part of the SCOPE workshop on engaging early career scientists with science policy at the Banbury Center.

07.01.25 This academic year I am the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies for Information Science at CU Boulder.

06.23.25 A new paper I co-authored (led by Jessie Smith who recently graduated with her PhD) was published as part of the ACM FAccT conference: “Pragmatic Fairness: Evaluating ML Fairness Within the Constraints of Industry.”

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