Dr. Kate Crawford

Biography

Kate Crawford is a leading scholar on the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She researches the understanding of technology within broader contexts including history, politics, labor, and the environment. Crawford is a research professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, as well as a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York City. Currently, she holds the inaugural visiting chair on AI Justice at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her academic research has been published in journals including New Media & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values, Information, Communication & Society, and Nature. Crawford's work also features collaborative projects, such as the ‘Anatomy of an AI System,’ which maps the complete lifecycle of the Amazon Echo; this project won the Beazley Design Year Award in 2019 and is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Furthermore, her collaboration with artist Trevor Paglen, titled ‘Excavating AI,’ won the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science. She is the author of the book 'Atlas AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence', published by Yale University Press in 2021.

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