Kate Crawford
AI researcher and scholar
Kate Crawford is an Australian researcher and writer who studies the social and political effects of artificial intelligence (AI). She wrote Atlas of AI.
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Born 1974 in Sydney, Australia
About Kate Crawford
Crawford has held research roles at Microsoft Research and at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg, and she co-founded the AI Now Institute at New York University. She has also been the first holder of a visiting chair at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, focused on AI and justice. Her work places machine learning and AI within history, politics, labor and the environment. Her book in our catalog is Atlas of AI. Crawford also makes collaborative visual projects. Anatomy of an AI System, made with Vladan Joler, took the 2019 Beazley Design of the Year prize and is held in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the V&A Museum in London. Excavating AI, an essay written with the artist Trevor Paglen, received the Ayrton Prize, awarded by the British Society for the History of Science.