1. Kate Crawford was born on 1974 and is a researcher, writer, composer, producer and academic, who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence.
14 Facts About Kate Crawford
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Kate Crawford is based in New York and works as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, the co-founder and former director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, a senior fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU, and an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.
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Kate Crawford is a member of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development.
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Kate Crawford argues that AI systems are not neutral or objective, but rather reflect and reinforce existing systems of power and inequality.
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Kate Crawford explores the environmental and ethical impacts of AI, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of its development.
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Kate Crawford has published on cultures of technology use and the way media histories inform the present, and has exhibited creative works in music and art at museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Kate Crawford was previously part of the Canberra electronic music duo Btek and released three albums between 1998 and 2003.
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Kate Crawford co-founded the Sydney-based Deluxe Mood Recordings record label and is a member of the Clan Analogue music collective.
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Kate Crawford is a member of the feminist collective Deep Lab.
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In 2017 Kate Crawford established the research institute AI Now Institute with Meredith Whittaker.
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Kate Crawford has given keynote addresses at venues such as the 2013 O'Reilly Strata Conference and the 2013 DataEDGE conference hosted by the University of California, Berkeley School of Information.
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Kate Crawford co-authored a book titled Understanding the Internet: Language, Technology, Media, and Power in 2014.
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Kate Crawford published a book Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence through Yale University Press in 2021.
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Kate Crawford completed a collaborative research-art project, Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500 in this time.