Person
Kate Crawford
Scholar of AI politics, Atlas of AI, and material supply chains behind machine intelligence.
Why this matters
Crawford demystifies AI as extractive infrastructure—not disembodied interpretation engine.
Works2 sources
book
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial
Crawford, Kate. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021.
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dataset
Datasheets for Datasets.
Gebru, Timnit, Jamie Morgenstern, Briana Vecchione, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Hanna Wallach, Hal Daumé III, and Kate Crawford. "Datasheets for Datasets." Communications of the ACM 64, no. 12 (2021): 86-92.
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Related books2 books
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Coupling
Cohesion, Consequence, and the Architecture of Responsibility
A practical framework for seeing where systems are tightly joined, where they drift apart, and how those coupling choices shape accountability over time.
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Living in Sediment
How Structures Outlive Their Reasons
We live inside inherited systems built for constraints that no longer exist. When structures survive after their reasons disappear, meaning drifts—and the danger is forgetting the sediment is sediment.
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