Introduction

Kate crawford has spent 20 years exploring the social, political and environmental impacts of artificial intelligence. She is fascinated by both their ability to help us understand the world, and nervous about their inability to understand us humans. Her work is focused on the broader, social,. political and even ecological consequences of building planetary scale a i systems. In many ways, she says, we tend to assume that these systems are somehow smarter than they are - and also less impactful on the planet.