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.
by Kate Crawford
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.
The books Kate Crawford references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Shoshana Zuboff
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.
by Caroline Criado Perez
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.
by Elizabeth Kolbert
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.
by Mariana Mazzucato
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.
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.