Carlos Ferran
University Park, Illinois

Carlos Ferran

DBA, EdD, CMA, CSCA

Full Professor of Accounting and Management Information Systems

College of Business, Governors State University

I study what happens to human judgment when information technology mediates it. That question has taken me from videoconferencing and the digital divide to accounting information systems, and most recently to generative artificial intelligence: who is credited for machine-assisted work, whose wages it displaces, and how universities govern a technology their faculty adopted before anyone wrote the policy.

I have taught in nine countries and published in Management Science and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. Before the academy, I spent fourteen years building the systems I now write about.

20Journal articles
27Proceedings
5Book chapters
2Books
9Under review
9Countries taught

Current lines of inquiry

The effects of artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is reshaping higher education and work at the same time, and the two are the same problem seen from opposite ends. I study what happens to curricula when the skills they certify are automated, which occupations are destroyed and which are created, and who appropriates the value that results.

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The uses of artificial intelligence

When a model contributes to a work, the question is not whether the output is original but who holds authorship of the judgment behind it. I also study what these systems can be trusted to do in practice, from grading academic work to detecting objects in aerial imagery, and where their reliability breaks down.

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The digital divide

Every mediating technology distributes its benefits unevenly. I am interested in who ends up on the disadvantaged side of that distribution, what the resulting gap does to communication, learning, and employment, and what it would take to close it.

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Writing

Aug 2026

The syllabus was never the policy

Institutions keep writing artificial intelligence rules at the course level, which is the one level at which they cannot be enforced consistently.

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