Casey Fiesler is an associate 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]
casey.prof (social media/content creation landing page) | AI ethics news | computing ethics education resources including the giant syllabi spreadsheet | ethics-related research | fandom-related research | fiction reading recommendations | PhD application advice | Computer Engineer Barbie remix
06.03.24 Two papers were published as part of the ACM FAccT Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency: Visions of a Discipline: Analyzing Introductory AI Courses on YouTube (led by Severin Engelmann at Cornell Tech) and Recommend Me? Designing Fairness Metrics with Providers (led by PhD student Jessie Smith). The latter also won a best paper award!
05.20.24 I published a piece in The Conversation about the potential pitfalls of AI in online communities: AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans.
05.12.24 A paper based on our insulin pump research, led by PhD student Tian Xu, was published as part of the ACM CHI conference: “Obviously, Nothing’s Gonna Happen in Five Minutes”: How Adolescents and Young Adults Infrastructure Resources to Learn Type 1 Diabetes Management.
05.08.24 My PhD advisee Shamika Klassen graduated following successfully defended her dissertation titled “Black to the Future: How Black women, femmes, and non-binary people imagine the future of technology”! She is moving on to a position as a UX Researcher at Google.
04.16.24 I visited Notre Dame to give a talk for the IBM Tech Ethics Lab, where I was a non-residential fellow during my AY 23/24 sabbatical. My talk was titled “When Data is People: Ethics, Privacy, and Ownership in Research and AI Uses of Public Data.”
03.20.24 I participated in the ACM SIGCSE conference on computer science education, including giving a talk about the state of CS ethics education for the workshop on “Strategies for Operationalizing the CS2023 Society-Ethics-Professionalism Recommendations” and presented our EngageCSEdu paper “Passwords and Python: Introducing Security Concepts in Lower-Division Programming.” PhD student Noah Cowit also presented our paper “How do Computing Students Conceptualize Cybersecurity? Survey Results and Strategies for Curricular Integration” and a poster “Student Preconceptions of Artificial Intelligence: Results from Single Institution Survey.”
03.14.24 I was interviewed for some news stories about the TikTok legislation before Congress, including from Vox and Reuters.
02.21.24 A paper with collaborators Michael Zimmer, Nicholas Proferes, Sarah Gilbert, and Naiyan Jones “Remember the Human: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Reddit Research” was published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction as part of the GROUP 2025 conference.
02.04.24 I was on a panel about open access AI at the Global Fractures in Technology Policy conference at the University of Colorado Law School.
01.11.24 I gave a talk for the Interactive Computing Distinguished Lecture Series at Georgia Tech, which was later covered in the student newspaper.
01.01.24 In celebration of Steamboat Willie entering the public domain, I made a YouTube video explaining how public domain functions in copyright law and what this might mean for Mickey Mouse. My university also interviewed me for a piece about public domain, Mickey Mouse, and artificial intelligence.
12.19.23 I created a YouTube video of my Night Before Christmas parody poem (fully illustrated!) about AI ethics: “‘Twas the AI Bias Before Christmas.”
12.11.23 I gave a (remote) talk (“AI for All: Public Education for Emerging Technology”) at the Advancing Research Communication Conference at Umeå University in Sweden.
12.06.23 I gave a talk for the Information Science colloquia series at University of Colorado Boulder: “When Data is People: Ethics, Privacy, and Ownership in Research and AI Uses of Public Data.”
11.27.23 A paper I co-authored with collaborators at University of Utah and Stanford was published in Transactions on Computing Education: “Teaching Ethics in Computing Education: A Systematic Literature Review of ACM Computer Science Education Publications.”
11.15.23 I participated in the Computing Research Association’s Leadership in Science Policy Institute in Washington DC.
11.08.23 I gave a (remote) talk about research ethics for a Media Literacy and Civic Cultures Lab event at Universidade Lusófona in Portugal.
11.02.23 I attended a CCC/CRA workshop on the future of social technologies research in Washington DC.
10.30.23 At the invitation of the White House, I attended the signing of President Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.