Kate Crawford

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Australian researcher

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| name = Kate Crawford | image = Kate Crawford in 2025 05.jpg | alt = red head woman | caption = Crawford in 2025 | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | other_names = | occupation = Academic | known_for = Writer, academic, researcher Kate Crawford (born 1974) is an Australian researcher, writer and academic who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is based in New York and works as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective). She is the co-founder and former director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, former visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, previous senior fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU, and former associate professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales. She is also a member of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development.

Crawford’s research focuses on social change and media technologies, particularly on the intersection of humans, mobile devices, and social networks. Her research examines how AI affects various aspects of human life, such as gender, race, and economic status. She argues that AI systems are not neutral or objective, but rather reflect and reinforce existing systems of power and inequality. She also explores the environmental and ethical impacts of AI, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of its development. She 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.

Background

Crawford was previously part of the Canberra electronic music duo B(if)tek (along with Nicole Skeltys) and released three albums between 1998 and 2003. Crawford co-founded the Sydney-based Deluxe Mood Recordings record label and is a member of the Clan Analogue music collective.

As a writer Crawford has written for The Sydney Morning Herald and Foreign Policy. She was a Fellow of the Centre for Policy Development and in March 2008 she was selected as one of 1000 Australians to attend the Australia 2020 Summit in Canberra on 19–20 April 2008.

She is a member of the feminist collective Deep Lab.

In 2017 Crawford established the research institute AI Now Institute with Meredith Whittaker. It is associated with New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

In 2019 she was the inaugural holder of the AI & Justice visiting chair at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, in partnership with the Fondation Abeona.

Work

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Writing and speaking

Crawford has a PhD from the University of Sydney. In 2006, her book based on her doctoral dissertation, Adult Themes – Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood, won the individual category of the Manning Clark National Cultural Award and in 2008 she received the then biennial Max Crawford Medal for outstanding scholarship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Crawford has spoken and published academic papers on such topics as social media, government regulation of media content, the interplay between gender and mobile devices, young people and sexting, and big data. She 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. She co-authored a book titled Understanding the Internet: Language, Technology, Media, and Power in 2014.

She published a book Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence through Yale University Press in 2021. Her article, "Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion", was shortlisted for The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing in 2022.

Crawford was an inaugural Cybernetic Imagination Resident from 2022-2023 and spoke at the launch of this program. She completed a collaborative research-art project, Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500 in this time.

Art projects

  • Anatomy of an AI System: a large-scale map and essay that is intended to reveal the material, human, and ecological costs of the Amazon Echo device. It was created in collaboration with artist Vladan Joler and won the Beazley Design of the Year Award in 2019. It is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
  • Training Humans: In collaboration with artist and photographer Trevor Paglen, images used to train AI systems were exhibited at the Prada Foundation, Milan in 2019. This was intended to show that AI systems are subject to bias, can reflect existing systems of power, and may reinforce inequality. The exhibition was criticised for making use of facial images without informed consent.
  • Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500: is a large-scale visualization that maps the co-evolution of technological and societal systems, created in collaboration with artist Vladen Joler. In 2024 this work won the European Commission's Grand Prize in Artistic Exploration and was exhibited at the Jeu de Paume in Paris in 2025. In May of 2025, Calculating Empires received the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2025.

References

References

  1. "Crawford, Kate, 1974- {{!}} NLA".
  2. (2021-11-18). "5 Women at the Forefront of Next-Gen Innovation".
  3. (26 November 2017). "Studying Artificial Intelligence At New York University". NPR.
  4. (20 July 2015). "exploring feminist hacktivism with deep lab". [[Vice (magazine).
  5. "About Us".
  6. "About".
  7. "People".
  8. "Chair on AI and Social Justice". Fondation Abeona.
  9. "Yale University Press". Yale University.
  10. Crawford, Kate. (2021-04-06). "Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence". Yale University Press.
  11. Crawford, Kate. (2021-04-27). "Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion".
  12. (October 2022). "Announcing the UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing 2022 Shortlist & Student Prize Winner".
  13. Cybernetics, ANU School of. (2023-04-28). "Cybernetic Imagination Residency Program Launch".
  14. (2024-10-02). "Calculating Empires".
  15. "Kate Crawford".
  16. Rea, Naomi. (2019-09-23). "How ImageNet Roulette, a Viral Art Project That Exposed Facial Recognition's Biases, Is Changing Minds About AI".
  17. (2021). "Creating AI Art Responsibly: A Field Guide for Artists". Revista Diseña.
  18. Grba, Dejan. (2022). "Lures of Engagement: An Outlook on Tactical AI Art".
  19. (2023). "Critical Dataset and Machine Learning Art". Morals & Machines.
  20. "Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500".
  21. (24 June 2024). "Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Power and Technology, 1500-2025 – S+T+ARTS Prize".
  22. Santana, Kirsten Kate. (2025-04-21). ""Le Monde selon l'IA": Art Explores Artificial Intelligence at Jeu de Paume".
  23. (2025-05-10). "Biennale Architettura 2025 {{!}} The awards of the Biennale Architettura 2025".
  24. (2025-04-29). "Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500".
  25. "Kate Crawford – Microsoft Research". Microsoft Research.
  26. "Kate Crawford {{!}} MIT Center for Civic Media". MIT.
  27. "NYU Law – Information Law Institute: People". New York University School of Law.
  28. "JMRC Staff". University of New South Wales.
  29. Allington, Patrick. (28 October 2006). "Adult Themes / NEO Power". The Australian.
  30. "Dark Network". Dark Network.
  31. "Kate Crawford – FORA.tv Speaker". FORA.tv.
  32. (6 April 2010). "B(if)tek {{!}} Clan Analogue". Clan Analogue.
  33. "Mobility Shifts :: Kate Crawford". The New School.
  34. "Kate Crawford on Mobile Social Media and Attention {{!}} Berkman Center". Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
  35. Crawford, Kate. (13 May 2013). "Is big data all it's cracked up to be?". Sydney Morning Herald.
  36. Crawford, Kate. (9 May 2013). "Think Again: Big Data Why the rise of machines isn't all it's cracked up to be". Foreign Policy.
  37. "Communicating your Research". Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations.
  38. "Australia 2020 Summit – Alphabetical list of delegates". Australia 2020 Summit.
  39. "Crawford Medal". Australian Academy of the Humanities.
  40. Crawford, Kate. (2006). "Adult Themes – Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood". Pan Macmillan.
  41. "Previous years winners {{!}} Manning Clark House". Manning Clark House.
  42. Evers, Clifton Westley. (2013). "Young People, Social Media, Social Network Sites and Sexual Health Communication in Australia: "This is Funny, You Should Watch It". International Journal of Communication.
  43. Crawford, Kate. (October 2010). "Always with me: how mobile and social media are changing us". University of New South Wales.
  44. Crawford, Kate. (2010). "What's Happening? Banality and Intimacy in Mobile and Social Media". Humanities Australia.
  45. Goggin, Gerard. (2010). "Moveable Types: Youth and the Emergence of Mobile Social Media in Australia". Media Asia.
  46. Crawford, Kate. (2013). "Networks of Governance: Users, Platforms, and the Challenges of Networked Media Regulation". International Journal of Technology Policy and Law.
  47. Tacchi, Jo. (2012). "Meaningful Mobility: Gender, Development and Mobile Phones". Feminist Media Studies.
  48. Albury, Kath. (2012). "Sexting, consent and young people's ethics: Beyond Megan's Story". Continuum.
  49. boyd, danah. (2012). "Critical Questions for Big Data". Information, Communication & Society.
  50. Crawford, Kate. (28 February 2013). "Algorithmic Illusions: Hidden Biases of Big Data". O'Reilly.
  51. "Schedule – DataEDGE Conference". University of California, Berkeley School of Information.
  52. Hardy, Quentin. (1 June 2013). "Why Big Data Is Not Truth". The New York Times.
  53. Chris Chesher, Kate Crawford, and Anne Dunn. (2014). "Understanding The Internet: Language, Technology, Media, Power". Palgrave Macmillan UK.
  54. "Global Agenda Council on Data-Driven Development 2014-2016".

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