KATE CRAWFORD
Kate Crawford is an internationally leading scholar of artificial intelligence and its impacts. She is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR in New York, and was the inaugural Visiting Chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Her most recent book, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics and The Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence won multiple awards including the Sally Hacker Prize, and was named one of the books of the year by New Scientist and the Financial Times. It has been translated into twelve languages.
Kate currently leads the Knowing Machines Project, a transatlantic research collaboration of scientists, artists, and legal scholars that investigates how AI systems are trained. Her research has appeared in venues such as Nature, AI & Society, and Science, Technology & Human Values, and she has advised policy makers in the United Nations, the White House, and the European Parliament. You can read her latest publication in Nature here.
Over her twenty-year career, Kate has also created art installations and visual investigations. Her project Anatomy of an AI System with Vladan Joler has been shown in more than 100 exhibitions and was awarded the Design of the Year Award and named in the Design of the Decades. It is currently exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (2022-2024), and is in the museum's permanent collection, as well as the permanent collections of the V&A Museum, the Ars Electronica Center, and the Design Museum in London among others.
Her latest project, Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500 premiered at Fondazione Prada in Milan, and in 2024 won the European Commission's Grand Prize for Science, Technology, and Art. She is based in New York.
For speaking engagements and invitations, contact info@katecrawford.net. For press and media requests, contact press@katecrawford.net. There's also @katecrawford on Twitter (although she’s not there much) and @__katecrawford__on Instagram.
Atlas reviewed in NYRB
Read Sue Halpern's review of Atlas of AI in the New York Review of Books.
Regulate emotion recognition AI
My piece for Nature on the perils of automating emotion prediction.
Excavating AI wins Ayrton Prize
Our multi-year research project, essay and app has been jointly awarded the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science.
Anatomy of AI acquired by MoMA
Our research visualization of the full life cycle of an Amazon Echo has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and is on show until late 2024.