Kate Crawford

Kate Crawford

Researcher and Author

Kate Crawford is an Australian researcher and academic who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is the author of Atlas of AI, a critically acclaimed examination of how AI systems are built on networks of extraction and exploitation.

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Books by Kate Crawford

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

by Kate Crawford

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Kate Crawford argues that AI is neither artificial nor intelligent but rather a planetary-scale extractive industry built on mineral mining, underpaid data labor, and massive datasets harvested from people without meaningful consent. Through chapters organised around earth, labor, data, classification, affect, and state power, she maps the material supply chains and political structures that make AI systems possible and shows how they concentrate power.

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Most Recommended by Kate

The books Kate Crawford references, cites, and recommends most frequently.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff

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Zuboff reveals how tech companies extract and sell predictions of human behaviour for profit. Surveillance capitalism is a new economic logic that threatens autonomy and democracy.

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Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Invisible Women

by Caroline Criado Perez

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Criado Perez exposes how a world designed around male-default data harms women in medicine, urban planning, and technology. The gender data gap is the invisible cost of a false universal standard.

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The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction

by Elizabeth Kolbert

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Kolbert documents how human activity is driving a mass extinction event comparable to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Species are vanishing at a rate not seen in 65 million years, and we are the cause.

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The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato

The Entrepreneurial State

by Mariana Mazzucato

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Mazzucato challenges the lone-entrepreneur myth by showing the state funded the riskiest innovations behind the iPhone, internet, and biotech. Public investment deserves credit and returns.

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Influence Map

Who Kate draws from, and who draws from Kate — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.

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