Kate Crawford is an internationally leading scholar of artificial intelligence and its impacts. She is a research professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research in New York, and was the inaugural Visiting Chair in AI and Justice at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Her research has appeared in venues such as Nature and Science, Technology & Human Values, and she has advised policymakers in the United Nations, the White House, and the European Parliament. Her book Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence has won multiple awards including the Sally Hacker Prize, is translated into more than ten languages, and was named one of the books of the year by both New Scientist and The Financial Times. Kate is a joint winner of the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science.
In addition to her academic research, Kate produces art installations and visual investigations which have been shown in more than a hundred museums and biennales around the world. Her project Anatomy of an AI System with Vladan Joler is currently exhibited at the MoMA in New York (2022-2024) and is in the museum"s permanent collection, as well as the permanent collections of the V&A in London, the Ars Electronica Center, and the Design Museum in London. It was also given the Design of the Year Award. Their new project, Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Power and Technology premiered at Fondazione Prada in Milan, and was next exhibited at the KW Institute in Berlin in 2024.
Kate leads the Knowing Machines Project, a transatlantic research collaboration of scientists, artists, and legal scholars that investigates training data. She was named on the TIME100 list in 2023 as one of the most influential people in AI.
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