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Kate Crawford

Demystifying AI: How It Works and What鈥檚 at Stake

We invite you to join us for our premier lecture series 鈥� Frontier Forum.

ABOUT THis EVENT

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are already playing a powerful role in our everyday lives鈥攚hether that鈥檚 the devices we use daily or facial-recognition software trained on Internet databases鈥攂ut they can often seem abstract and opaque.

During this talk, AI expert and award-winning author Kate Crawford demystifies AI to show us how it鈥檚 鈥渕ade鈥� in the fullest sense: from data, human labor, and environmental resources. She draws from her 20 years of AI research around the world, as well as her journeys to field sites鈥攆rom lithium mines to Amazon warehouses, or to Jeff Bezos鈥� rocket base. Crawford maps the costs of AI that are usually hidden from public view. She reveals how AI is amplifying discrimination and inequality and offers paths forward for research and policy that address the political, social, and economic effects of AI. As one of the foremost researchers on the impact of artificial intelligence, Crawford helps us understand how AI works, what鈥檚 at stake for us and our democracy, and how we can carve a fairer way forward. 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Professor Kate Crawford is a leading international scholar of the social implications of artificial intelligence. She is a Research Professor at USC Annenberg in Los Angeles, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR in New York, an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, and the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure in Paris.鈥� Her latest book, 鈥�(Yale, 2021) won the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, the ASSI&T鈥疊est Information Science Book Award, and was named one of the best books in 2021 by New Scientist鈥痑苍诲鈥痶丑别鈥�Financial Times. Over her twenty-year research career, she has also produced groundbreaking creative collaborations and visual investigations. Her project鈥� 鈥痺ith Vladan Joler is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the V&A in London, and was awarded with the鈥�鈥痑nd included in the鈥�鈥痓y the Design Museum of London. Her collaboration with the鈥痑rtist Trevor Paglen,鈥�, won the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science. She has advised policy makers in the United Nations, the White House, and the European Parliament, and she currently leads the Knowing Machines Project, an international research collaboration that investigates the foundations of machine learning. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in AI in the 2023 Times 100/AI list.

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