For more than a decade, Casey Mock has been explaining technology to lawmakers and lawmaking to technologists — and thinking about what happens when one dominates the other and the rest of us get left behind.
As Executive in Residence in the Duke University Science & Society Program, Casey teaches graduate students and supervises practical student research meant to have real-world impact. Casey also advises The Anxious Generation (TAG) on global policy strategy. Through his work with TAG, Casey spearheaded the development of the Childhood Index, a fifty-state ranking designed to drive policy competition among states on children's wellbeing online and offline. He is a regular contributor to Haidt's Substack, After Babel, and writes on technology and society on his own Substack, Tomorrow's Mess.
Previously, as Chief Policy and Public Affairs Officer at the Center for Humane Technology, Mock shaped Biden administration policy, California state policy, the national debate on AI accountability, and both state and federal AI product liability legislation. Casey also partnered with leading tech justice plaintiffs' attorneys and journalists to raise public awareness about the risks to kids from companion chatbots in conjunction with the filing of the first lawsuits against Google and Character.Ai after their product led to the death of a teenager.
He has served governors of both parties, advising on 'transformational' budget policy and economic development; remade the state sales tax landscape as Amazon's national state tax policy lead; led start up of USAID programs across nine countries; and taught in a rural Moldovan high school as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
Mock holds a J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School and a B.A. in Classical Literature, History, and Archaeology from the University of Tennessee. He is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia.