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Kate Crawford is an Australian-American academic and scholar specializing in the social, political, and environmental implications of artificial intelligence. She is a co-founder of the AI Now Institute at New York University, a leading research center studying the social effects of AI, and the author of the 2021 book Atlas of AI. Her work focuses on how AI systems and data extraction reinforce existing structures of power and inequality.
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What is Kate Crawford known for?
Kate Crawford studies the social, political, and environmental consequences of artificial intelligence. Her 2021 book Atlas of AI examines the labor, data, mineral extraction, and energy systems behind modern AI.
What is the AI Now Institute, and what was Crawford's role in it?
The AI Now Institute researches how artificial intelligence affects society, labor, rights, and public policy. Crawford co-founded it with Meredith Whittaker in 2017.
Is Kate Crawford a computer scientist or a technology critic?
Crawford works across technology research, social science, history, and political analysis rather than focusing only on software or algorithms. Her work treats AI as an industrial and political system with real effects on people and the environment.
What is Atlas of AI about?
Atlas of AI is a 2021 nonfiction book about the hidden costs of artificial intelligence. It connects machine learning to data labor, surveillance, mining, environmental damage, and corporate power.
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