KATE CRAWFORD

Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of artificial intelligence and its material impacts. She is a Research Professor at the University of Southern California, a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York, and the inaugural visiting chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. 

Her latest book, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (Yale University Press) was named a best book of the year by The Financial Times, won three international prizes, and has been translated into twelve languages.

Crawford leads the interdisciplinary lab Knowing Machines Project, a transatlantic research collaboration of scientists, artists, and legal scholars that investigates how AI systems are trained. She has also co-founded multiple research institutes, including FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in AI, based at MSR) and the AI Now Institute (NYU). Her research has appeared in many venues including Nature, AI & Society, and Science, Technology & Human Values. She has advised policymakers in the United Nations, the White House, the European Parliament, and is currently on the AI Council of President Sanchez of Spain. TIME100 named Crawford as one of the world’s most influential people in AI.

In addition to her scholarly work, Crawford is an award-winning artist. Her latest project Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500​ (with Vladan Joler) won the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, the Grand Prize of the European Commission for art and technology, and the Boghossian Art Prize 2024. It premiered at Fondazione Prada in Milan in 2023, and has been shown around the world including the Mori Museum in Tokyo, the Jeu De Paume in Paris, the Design Museum in Barcelona, the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, and the KW Institute in Berlin. Crawford and Joler’s prior project, Anatomy of an AI System, has been shown in more than 100 exhibitions worldwide, was awarded the Design of the Year Award, and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, the Ars Electronica Center, and the Design Museum in London, among others.

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