Cas Laskowski

Cas Laskowski is a veteran, librarian, gamer, teacher, Latina, techie, comic book nerd, and empiricist in perpetual beta. She regularly engages in national AI efforts, including co-founding the Future of Law Libraries Initiative. She was a ’24-‘25 fellow of the UA Research Leadership Institute, a founding fellow of the inaugural Fellow in the University of Tennessee Library’s 2021 IDEA Institute on Artificial Intelligence, and the only librarian of any type to be selected for the 2022 Summer Conference on Applied Data Science, at North Carolina State University, where she leveraged machine learning summarization methods to design a prototype system that would aid intelligence analysts in efficiently identifying relevant audio files. She co-led the UA Making AI Generative for Higher Education project team, a two-year cross-institution partnership with Ithaka S+R, and serves on the Arizona Steering Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts.