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Kate Crawford
Author of Atlas of AI; research professor at USC Annenberg
Researcher who studies AI as a material and political system - minerals, labor, energy and classification - and co-founded the AI Now Institute.
Websitekatecrawford.net
#AI and power#environmental cost#classification
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InterviewNew ScientistMarch 2021May need a subscription
Kate Crawford interview: How AI is exploiting people and the planet
The labor, minerals and electricity behind the software. New Scientist may ask you to subscribe.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues AI is not abstract: it is built from minerals, energy, water, and underpaid labor, and those costs belong in any account of it.
- Documents how training datasets encode contestable classifications of people, and what that does downstream.
- Argues regulation should attach to deployment contexts — hiring, policing, welfare — rather than to models in the abstract.
Accomplishments
- Author of Atlas of AI (2021), winner of multiple book prizes.
- Co-founder of the AI Now Institute at NYU; research professor at USC Annenberg and senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research.
- Co-created Anatomy of an AI System and Excavating AI, exhibited internationally.
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