Kate Crawford

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems pull data from across the internet, library databases and our online presence, it generates a significant change in our relationship with knowledge. But what do we really know about this pervasive technology? Do our societies have robust guardrails in place to protect people and democracies, and have we reckoned with AI’s environmental impact? Join award-winning Professor Kate Crawford, one of the world’s foremost scholars on the social and political implications of AI, as she explores how AI is reshaping our societies, ecosystems and power structures with host Natasha Mitchell in State Library Victoria's 2024 For Future Reference lecture. Professor Kate Crawford is a leading international scholar of artificial intelligence. She is a Professor at USC Annenberg, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR New York, and was the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her book Atlas of AI won multiple awards and was named one of the best books of 2021 by New Scientist and The Financial Times . Her project Anatomy of an AI System with Vladan Joler won the Design of the Year Award in 2019 and is on show at MoMA from 2022-2024. Their latest work, Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power , won the Grand Prize of the European Commission for art and technology. She was named on the TIME100 list as one of the most influential people in AI. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kate Crawford’s Long Now Talk traces an historical arc from Renaissance perspective to AI image models, illustrating how shifts in representational power shape empires, economies—even our shared sense of reality. During the talk, Crawford gives a tour through her detailed artwork Calculating Empires. Through examples ranging from Liebig’s critique of agriculture “robbing” soil nutrients, to Faraday’s latex insulation that devastated rubber forests, Crawford shows how technologies have long created “metabolic rifts”: systems that extract more than they regenerate. Don't miss the closing Q&A, where host Kevin Kelly asks Crawford what responsible, non-extractive AI might look like.

In this episode of I’ve Got Questions, I sit down with leading AI scholar Kate Crawford, professor at USC, and author of award-winning Atlas of AI to examine the environmental, social, and ethical costs of artificial intelligence. We break down how AI is an extension of earth’s resources with giant data centers that use huge amounts of electricity, water, and minerals. We discuss how this is putting pressure on the planet and on communities that often go unseen. Kate breaks down how the global “AI race” between countries is creating new risks and what it will take from us to build technology that helps both people and the planet. 0:00 – Introduction 1:00 – Why Kate Crawford Says AI Isn’t “Virtual” — It’s Industrial 2:30 – The Hidden Environmental Cost of AI Models 4:05 – How AI Competes with Humans for Survival Resources 6:00 – Data Centers, Fossil Fuels, and Real-World Harm to Communities 8:00 – The Illusion of “Efficiency” and the Jevons Paradox 10:30 – How Behavioral Change Fuels the AI Explosion 12:00 – What Happens If We Don’t Change How We Build AI 14:00 – Why China’s Energy Strategy Is Beating the U.S. 16:00 – The False Choice: National Security or the Planet 18:00 – Shifting Responsibility from Individuals to Systems 20:00 – The Structural Design Failure Behind AI’s Carbon Footprint 22:00 – How Race Dynamics and Geopolitics Drive Destructive AI Growth 24:00 – Why Concentrated AI Power Threatens Democracy 26:00 – Nationalism, Cooperation, and the Future of Global AI Policy 28:00 – Why Technology Is Never Neutral 30:00 – The Myths and Realities of “AI for Climate” 32:00 – What Smaller, Efficient AI Could Look Like 33:00 – The Billionaire Empire Behind the AI Revolution 35:00 – AI as the Continuation of Historical Power Structures 38:00 – The Long Arc of Empires and Industrial Transformations 39:30 – When Private Tech Companies Rival Nation States 41:00 – The Next Three Years: The Most Consequential in AI History 43:00 – The Rising Threat of AI-Driven Misinformation 44:00 – The Dangerous Defunding of Science and Research 46:00 – Could a Brain Drain Lead to New Global Research Centers? 47:30 – What Individuals Can Do to Shape the AI Future 48:30 – Closing Reflections Follow my work here: Website: https://www.sineadbovell.com Substack: https://sineadbovell.substack.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sineadbovell LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sineadbovell Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/SineadBovell YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/Sineadbovell TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sineadbovell

"I'm just here to scream from the rooftops that the physical body is just straight up done being the primary focus. It doesn't want to be the primary focus. It was never intended to be the primary focus. It's just that people make a shit ton of money off of the physical body being the primary focus." Today, I’m joined by Kate Crawford, a long-term client, who's a licensed Physical Therapist and CEO of Korē Breathwork specializing in using the body to uncover hidden traumas and emotional blocks. Kate's journey from dealing with debilitating anxiety to leaving her job in healthcare and starting her own business is nothing short of inspiring. Through her program, "The Secret Language of the Body," Kate helps individuals understand and heal chronic pain by addressing ancestral trauma, emotional wounds, and energetic imbalances. We discuss her unique approach, blending physical therapy with deep emotional and spiritual work, and how she has successfully integrated the tools from the Metamorphosis Method to create her own powerful methodology. If you're interested in holistic healing, personal transformation, and the incredible wisdom our bodies hold, this one's for you. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS (00:00) Intro (01:23) In Today's Episode...Kate Crawford: A Journey of Transformation and Commitment (04:36) The Mothership Mastermind (07:28) Kate's Background and How it All Started (12:56) Processing The Metamorphosis. Understanding The Secret Language of the Body (20:11) Exploring the Mother Wound (26:16) The Ultimate Nervous System Reset (32:15) The 3 Major Energy Patterns (33:28) Anger, Back Pain and Emotional Childhood (37:32) Migraines and Suppressed Emotions (39:54) Hypervigilance and Over Responsibility (42:10) Grieving and Self-Acceptance (47:31) Ancestral Feelings and Chronic Pain (51:14) Breathwork and Energetic Shifts (56:36) Special Session Offer CONTACT KATE Get The Body Communication Call A 45-minute 1:1 virtual call to pinpoint the exact energetic pattern responsible for why pain continues to show up in your body! Follow on IG the_metaphysical_therapist Visit korebreathwork.com Find all of Kate's offerings HERE **WAYS TO ENTER MY WORLD** Leave a review, send us a screenshot and get a $250 credit, you can apply to anything else in my world. The Mothership gives you full premium access to my entire body of work. Sign up before the end of September to get a 60 min 1 on 1 call with me. You'll also be included in my exclusive 4 week mastermind TURNING POINT to create a permanent shift to get you to the next level. The Metamorphosis Method starts February, 2025. Master my proven methodology to guide your clients to rapidly and efficiently transmute lifetimes of familial and ancestral trauma on the deepest possible level. For coaches, healers and anyone who works with clients to create transformation (or if you desire to) this program provides you with a solid, deep and foundational skillset to create predictable results with your clients that you will become known for. CONTACT ALYSE Join my FB group IG @alyse_breathes Visit alysebreathes.com info@alysebreathes.com

Kicking off the Debates in AI symposium was Kate Crawford. Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of AI, artist, and author of Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. A preeminent expert in the social and political aspects of artificial intelligence (AI), Kate has spent 20 years analyzing data systems, machine learning and AI's impact on society. A research professor at USC Annenberg, senior principal researcher at MSR-NYC and honorary professor at the University of Sydney, she leads at the intersection of technology and justice. Crawford co-founded influential research groups like FATE and the AI Now Institute, advising entities from the UN to the White House. Her works, including the acclaimed Atlas of AI, span academic journals to news publications like The New York Times. Her collaborations, like Anatomy of an AI System, have garnered international awards, highlighting her role in shaping the discourse on technology’s global influence. Following her lecture she sits down for a conversation and Q&A moderated by Artnet News National Art Critic and author Ben Davis. Ben is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Haymarket, 2013), which ARTnews named one of the best art books of the decade in 2019, and Art in the After-Culture (Haymarket, 2022). His writings have also been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Baffler, Jacobin, Slate, Salvage, e-Flux Journal, Frieze and many other outlets. In 2019, Nieman Journalism Lab reported that he was one of the five most influential art critics in the United States. He lives in Brooklyn. To watch talks from the two-day symposium, head over to AI-Debates.risd.edu . You can also listen to each of them wherever you find your podcasts. Support for the event was from the Divisions of Liberal Arts, Experimental and Foundation Studies, and Architecture & Design, as well as the Fleet Library and the Center for Arts and Language. Thank you to our largest contributor, the Center for Complexity and the RISD 2050 Fund for kicking off this important conversation. Audio produced by Andrew Grant and Marisa Mazria Katz Music: "Imagery" and "Last Night" by Xylo-Ziko Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Controlling technology means controlling the world. While this statement rings painfully true today, it is as old as the idea of technology itself. In other words, as old as humanity. In this episode, Paola Antonelli interviews renowned researcher, author, and artist Kate Crawford, a leading voice on the social, ethical, and planetary implications of all technologies––artificial intelligence in particular. Kate uses art and information design to manifest histories and connections that would otherwise remain invisible because of their long time span and complexity. The interview is centered around one of Kate’s latest collaborations with artist-researcher Vladan Joler, “Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025,” an ambitious 24-m (ca. 79 ft) long fresco that was conceived during the Covid pandemic, perfected in the isolation of a monastery in Montenegro, and is now traveling around the world, after an inauguration at the Prada Foundation in Milan in 2023. Kate describes Calculating Empires as a visual history of the present––after French philosopher Michel Foucault’s theory––and shows how the dangerous intersection of technology and power we witness today has happened many times before. If we abandon our tendency towards short-termism, she believes, there is a lot we can learn from past experiences. You can find images of Calculating Empire on Design Emergency’s Instagram platform, @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from other important voices who, like Kate, are at the forefront of positive change. Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“We haven't invested this much money into an infrastructure like this really until you go back to the pyramids”—Kate Crawford Transcript with links to audio and external links. Ground Truths podcasts are on Apple and Spotify. The video interviews are on YouTube Eric Topol ( 00:06 ): Well, hello, this is Eric Topol with Ground Truths, and I'm really delighted today to welcome Kate Crawford, who we're very lucky to have as an Australian here in the United States. And she's multidimensional, as I've learned, not just a scholar of AI, all the dimensions of AI, but also an artist, a musician. We're going to get into all this today, so welcome Kate. Kate Crawford ( 00:31 ): Thank you so much, Eric. It's a pleasure to be here. Eric Topol ( 00:34 ): Well, I knew of your work coming out of the University of Southern California (USC) as a professor there and at Microsoft Research, and I'm only now learning about all these other things that you've been up to including being recognized in TIME 2023 as one of 100 most influential people in AI and it's really fascinating to see all the things that you've been doing. But I guess I'd start off with one of your recent publications in Nature . It was a world view, and it was about generative AI is guzzling water and energy. And in that you wrote about how these large AI systems, which are getting larger seemingly every day are needing as much energy as entire nations and the water consumption is rampant. So maybe we can just start off with that. You wrote a really compelling piece expressing concerns, and obviously this is not just the beginning of all the different aspects you've been tackling with AI. Exponential Growth, Exponential Concerns Kate Crawford ( 01:39 ): Well, we're in a really interesting moment. What I've done as a researcher in this space for a very long time now is really introduce a material analysis of artificial intelligence. So we are often told that AI is a very immaterial technology. It's algorithms in the cloud, it's objective mathematics, but in actual fact, it comes with an enormous material infrastructure. And this is something that I took five years to research for my last book, Atlas of AI . It meant going to the mines where lithium and cobalt are being extracted. It meant going into the Amazon fulfillment warehouses to see how humans collaborate with robotic and AI systems. And it also meant looking at the large-scale labs where training data is being gathered and then labeled by crowd workers. And for me, this really changed my thinking. It meant that going from being a professor for 15 years focusing on AI from a very traditional perspective where we write papers, we're sitting in our offices behind desks, that I really had to go and do these journeys, these field trips, to u

Kate Crawford is a nonprofit leader, fierce advocate, digital creator, and more importantly, wife and mother. Kate is no stranger to struggle and tragedy in her life. Kate's journey to motherhood led her to find a hope that would carry her through some of her hardest days. All four of her children were treated in the neonatal intensive care unit right after birth due to different complications. Her first daughter sadly died just 3 days after being born. Her twin daughters would just need some help to grow strong. Due to complications with her last pregnancy, she and her son nearly died. As a result of her son being premature, he suffered many life-altering complications. Kate never wanted a family to feel alone during such a trying time in their lives so she and a few of her close friends created the organization, Project Sweet Peas. Project Sweet Peas quickly grew to become a national non-profit organization coordinated by volunteers, who through personal experience have become passionate about providing support to families of premature or critically ill infants and to those who have been affected by pregnancy and infant loss. Kate served as the President of Project Sweet Peas until 2013 when she was diagnosed with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer at just 28 years old. The cancer entirely covered her liver, both breasts, shoulder, ribs, thoracic and lumbar spine, and completely covered her pelvis. A diagnosis this severe gave her a less than 15% chance of surviving for 5 years. With little hope, Kate started a "Mommy Bucket List". Her twins were 4 and her son just turned 3 when she was diagnosed so her list was all the things she still wanted to do with her children, things she wished to do, and experiences she had hoped to see achieved. Each year that passed after Kate's diagnosis brought more optimism but it brought many health challenges as a result of intense cancer treatments. Kate found out she had two cancer-causing genetic mutations and has faced three other primary cancers. In the past 11 years, Kate has had 179 treatments, a double mastectomy, oophorectomy, gall bladder surgery, lumbar puncture, radiation, broken bones from treatment and cancer, fluid buildup in her brain, blood clots in my lungs, hip surgery and heart failure. One thing Kate didn't do was lose hope. Just as she did with Project Sweet Peas, Kate dived into the breast cancer nonprofit community, raising nearly $100,000 for breast cancer research and local organizations. She has traveled the country sharing her story to advocate for better patient-centered care practices in healthcare. She works closely with local breast cancer community leaders to ensure Pittsburgh continues to be a pioneer in research and patient care. When Kate is working as a cancer advocate you will find her volunteering her time elsewhere. Kate remains an active volunteer with Project Sweet Peas and spearheaded the global initiative, NICU Awareness Month. Kate volunteers for as many things that involve her kids as she can. She and her family still work on checking things from the bucket list. She has a large following on TikTok, where she brings humor to her diagnosis. She loves being an artist and usually spends her free time in her studio at home crafting. As always, the visually inclined can catch it on YouTube, or listen in on Spotify or your favorite podcast platform.

Kate Crawford is a building nerd who is obsessed with measuring performance. She's currently, Technical Director at KLH Sustainability , a multidisciplinary consultancy working in the built environment. Kate has a very interesting background in terms of her experience and she's now working on a very fascinating project in which she's researching and developing a "Smart Meter Enabled Thermal Energy Rating (SMETER)" system that uses a new approach to measuring building performance and a different kind of metric for assessing it. The result has been something that they call "the snug factor", which is the heat-transfer coefficient of the building (Kate explains it all in the episode). The way they generate their heat-transfer coefficient has led to incredibly accurate estimations for energy use in a home. Notes from the show Kate Crawford on LinkedIn KLH Sustainability 's website The research Jeff mentions about low pressure showers using more water Real performance and the HEM Real performance and the SAP Kate's little (and excellent) graphic novel on her experience of aid work **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**

#51: In today's episode, I have a profoundly honest and enlightening conversation about trauma, anxiety, and the power of healing through breath with breathwork expert Kate Crawford. Kate, of Korē Breathwork, blends her extensive scientific knowledge with a spiritual perspective to guide clients in understanding and processing their trauma. She shares her personal journey and how it led her to discover the transformative effects of breathwork. We talked about the connection between trauma, illness, chronic pain, and unexpressed emotions, and Kate provided invaluable insights into the body's communication and the role of breath in regulating the nervous system. If you're looking to discover and remember your true self, this episode is a must-listen. Click here to download Kate's free breathwork package. Stay connected with Kate at: www.korebreathwork.com @korebreathwork Join 1k others in my weekly unhinged newsletter where I get honest about entrepreneurship. Learn more about the Ironically Serious podcast at www.ironicallyserious.com Submit a guest or topic for the podcast here. Follow the podcast on Instagram @ironicallyseriouspod Stay connected with Taylor @taytorres @chanelandlee Submit your SOS to be featured on an episode here. Leave Taylor a voicemail here.

Better Machines for Better Humans Kate Crawford is a leading scholar on the social implications of artificial intelligence. Her book ATLAS OF AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence is the culmination of a five-year-long research into materiality of AI. Far from being immaterial, AI is made of flesh, sweat and fossil fuels, and is not neutral. Also, AI stands as one of the most concentrated industries of the world, with only five or six companies holding the pipelines of the data, designed to serve the capital, or for policing and for military purposes. Acquainting this is essential to resistance and change, because it’s by abstracting away the processes through which AI is made that the actual modes of production can persist. However, no political situation lasts forever and no technology is invulnerable: these planetary computational systems can be decentralised and become useful to humans and the planet. Guests: Sanela Jahić, intermedia artist; Lenart J. Kučić, journalist and podcaster; Nika Mahnič, researcher of the digital condition(ality). Watch this episode in video format > HERE Read this conversation in book format > HERE RELATED LINKS [Installation]: Anatomy of an AI System [Talk]: You and AI (The Royal Society) [Website] Kate Crawford COLOPHON Host: Marta Peirano Guest: Kate Crawford Editing, Audio Mix and Music: Gašper Torkar (re)programming podcast series Produced by Janez Fakin Janša and Marcela Okretič for Tactics&Practice #10: (re)programming Project coordinator: Sonja Grdina Production: Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2023 Part of Tactics&Practice konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art The project konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art was chosen on the public call for the selection of the operations “Network of Investigative Art and Culture Centres”. The investment is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union. The post S2 [(re)programming] E5: AI [w/ Kate Crawford] appeared first on Aksioma .

In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Kate Crawford about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on politics, society and the environment. References: Atlas of AI: https://www.amazon.de/Atlas-AI-Kate-Crawford/dp/0300209576 ; Cambridge Analytica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica ; EU AI Act: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence?&at_campaign=20226-Digital&at_medium=Google_Ads&at_platform=Search&at_creation=RSA&at_goal=TR_G&at_advertiser=Webcomm&at_audience=ai%20legislation&at_topic=Artificial_intelligence_Act&at_location=DE&gclid=CjwKCAjw38SoBhB6EiwA8EQVLp2jgJig_SOoEmahWuJMFS5YatGjK4HfMefcFF5U-jDdE2nNghrNthoCEWwQAvD_BwE ; Lisa Feldman Barrett: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100619832930 ; Oppenheimer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film) ; Knowing Machines: https://knowingmachines.org/ ; Trevor Paglen: https://paglen.studio/ ; ImageNet: https://www.image-net.org/ ; Black Mirror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror ; Spawning AI: https://spawning.ai/ ; Laion 5: https://laion.ai/blog/laion-5b/ ; Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.robertboschacademy.de/en/newsletter-subscription Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.