Kate Crawford

Spécialiste des coûts matériels et politiques de l’IA, autrice d’« Atlas of AI » et chercheuse principale senior à Microsoft Research, elle avertit que l’IA repose sur l’extraction de minerais, d’eau, d’énergie et de travail et concentre le pouvoir entre peu de mains.

Fonctions

2012 – aujourd’huiSenior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research New YorkStart year as given by third-party biographies; Microsoft's own page states none.Source →
2017 – aujourd’huiCo-founder and Director of Research, AI Now Institute, New York UniversityFounded with Meredith Whittaker.Source →
2019 – aujourd’huiInaugural Visiting Chair, AI and Justice, École Normale Supérieure, ParisSource →

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20 mai 2026 · Entretien · Harvard Design Magazine
This is the biggest infrastructure that we've built as a species, dwarfing the Manhattan Project in terms of capital, land, and energy outlay.
Inaugural Visiting Chair, AI and Justice, École Normale Supérieure, Paris à l’époque
On the data-centre build-out behind generative AI.
Kate Crawford & Marina Otero Verzier on Hyperscale Data Centers →
sept. 2025 · Tribune · e-flux Architecture
The metabolic rift between humans and AI threatens multiple forms of failure: model collapse, ecological collapse, and cognitive collapse.
Inaugural Visiting Chair, AI and Justice, École Normale Supérieure, Paris à l’époque
Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop →
20 févr. 2024 · Tribune · Nature
The full planetary costs of generative AI are closely guarded corporate secrets… Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much energy as entire nations.
Inaugural Visiting Chair, AI and Justice, École Normale Supérieure, Paris à l’époque
Generative AI's environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret →
23 avr. 2021 · Entretien · MIT Technology Review
Let's actually look at who's running the levers of these systems. That means shifting away from just focusing on things like ethical principles to talking about power.
Inaugural Visiting Chair, AI and Justice, École Normale Supérieure, Paris à l’époque
On publication of "Atlas of AI".
Stop talking about AI ethics. It's time to talk about power. →
6 avr. 2021 · Tribune · Nature
The pandemic is being used as a pretext to push unproven artificial-intelligence tools into workplaces and schools.
Inaugural Visiting Chair, AI and Justice, École Normale Supérieure, Paris à l’époque
Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions →