Kate Crawford is a research professor of communication and science and technology studies at USC Annenberg, a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research New York, and the inaugural visiting chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. A leading scholar of artificial intelligence and its material impacts, her book Atlas of AI: Power, Politics and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (Yale University Press, 2021) won three international prizes and has been translated into twelve languages. She leads the Knowing Machines Project and co-founded the AI Now Institute at New York University. She has advised policymakers at the United Nations, the White House, and the European Parliament. Crawford is also an award-winning artist whose collaboration with Vladan Joler, “Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500,” won the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025.