Kate Crawford
Australian researcher · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1974 · age 52
Kate Crawford 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.
Kate Crawford is read about 70 times a day, in 13 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 19 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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, To suggest that we democratize Al to reduce asymmetries of power is a little like arguing for democratizing weapons manufacturing in the service of peace.
It is a common practice of life to focus on the world immediately before us, the one we see and smell and touch every day.
Controlling time - whether via the clocks for churches, trains or data centers - has always been a function of controlling the political order.
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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.
