Kate Crawford

Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. Her work has focused on understanding machine learning and AI in the wider contexts of history, politics, labor, and the environment.

She is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg, a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York, and she currently holds the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Her academic research has been published in journals such as Nature, New Media & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values and Information, Communication & Society. Kate’s work also includes collaborative projects and visual investigations. Her project Anatomy of an AI System with Vladan Joler – which maps the full lifecycle of the Amazon Echo – won the Beazley Design of the Year Award in 2019, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the V&A Museum in London. Her collaboration with the artist Trevor Paglen produced the first major exhibition on training data, "Training Humans" and their investigative essay, Excavating AI, won the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science.