Nicholas Proferes is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He is also the co-director of the AI Ethics working-group at ASU’s Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky’s School of Information Science, was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Ethics and Values in Design Lab at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies. His work focuses on scientific research practices in the context of Internet research, users’ understandings and beliefs about socio-technical systems such as social media and AI, and societal discourse about new technologies. As part of this research agenda, he has analyzed how scientists are using data from Reddit as part of the production of new knowledge; users’ beliefs about information flow on Twitter; and how tech leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg use strategic language choices to position their technologies in society.