Kate Crawford

Accomplishments

• Author of Atlas of AI (Yale University Press).¹
• Professor at USC; visiting chair of AI and Justice at ENS Paris.¹
• Co-founded AI Now Institute and FATE at Microsoft Research.¹
• Named to TIME100 Most Influential People in AI.¹

Academic appointments

Crawford is a professor at USC and the inaugural visiting chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 2026 Crawford is also a Weizenbaum Distinguished Fellow and Amherst College Presidential Scholar.¹

Atlas of AI and research institutes

Crawford's book Atlas of AI: Power, Politics and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (Yale University Press) was named a best book of the year by the Financial Times and New Scientist, won three international prizes, and has been translated into fourteen languages.¹

Crawford leads the Knowing Machines lab and co-founded FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in AI) at Microsoft Research and the AI Now Institute at NYU. TIME100 named Crawford one of the world's most influential people in AI. Crawford has advised policymakers at the United Nations, the White House, and the European Parliament.¹

Timeline

1. 2021Atlas of AI was published by Yale University Press.¹
2. 2025Calculating Empires (with Vladan Joler) won the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.¹

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Co-founder, AI Now Institute¹
• Co-founded FATE research group, Microsoft Research¹

Honors and recognition

• TIME100 AI · TIME¹
• Silver Lion, Venice Architecture Biennale (Calculating Empires) · Venice Architecture Biennale, 2025¹

Where they work

• University of Southern California 4 people in the wiki

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