Kate Crawford is a leading academic on the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. Over a 20-year career, her work has focused on understanding large-scale data systems and AI in the wider contexts of history, politics, labor, and the environment. Kate is based in New York, where she co-founded the AI Now Institute; she’s also a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR, and she’s the inaugural Visiting Chair in AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure for 2021. Her Anatomy of an AI System with Vladan Joler – which maps the full lifecycle of a single Amazon Echo from mines in the Congo to e-waste pits in Ghana – won the Beazley Design of the Year Award in 2019, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Kate's forthcoming book is titled Atlas of AI: On Power, Politics and the Planetary Costs of AI (Yale 2021).