Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social implications of artificial intelligence. She is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg, a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York, and the co-founder of the AI Now Institute.
Her book Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (Yale University Press) has been widely acclaimed for its investigation of the material, labor, and environmental dimensions of AI systems. The book reveals the hidden costs of AI—from the mines where rare minerals are extracted to the data centers that consume vast amounts of energy.
Crawford’s collaborative work with Trevor Paglen, “Excavating AI,” exposed the problematic training data behind facial recognition systems, sparking important conversations about bias and representation in machine learning.