Kate CrawfordVerified account

@katecrawford

🌎 Book: ATLAS OF AI 🌎 NYRB: Researching politics, power, and AI | | |

#atlasofAI
katecrawford.net
Joined February 2009
452 Photos and videos Photos and videos

Tweets

You blocked @katecrawford

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @katecrawford

  1. Pinned Tweet
    6 Apr 2021

    This tweet was 5 years in the making: is out TODAY! It’s a book on the politics and planetary costs of artificial intelligence as an extractive industry— consuming natural resources, labor, and vast quantities of data. 👉 (1/6)

    74 replies . 355 retweets 1,465 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  2. Retweeted
    Apr 13

    "Emotion AI" -- controversial AI that attempts to detect people's moods based on facial expressions, tone of voice and what they say -- is becoming productized. tells me it could end up in your virtual meeting soon. Others already sell it. My latest:

    2 replies . 22 retweets 35 likes
    Undo
  3. Retweeted
    Apr 6

    question: if we are going to update university ethics review boards to take account of big data and AI projects, what is the literature we need? Starting from and 's 2016 paper , what else should we use?

    9 replies . 25 retweets 63 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  4. Retweeted
    Apr 4

    With the cool climate cost of 271.43 tons of CO2.

    Introducing the 540 billion parameter Pathways Language Model. Trained on two Cloud v4 pods, it achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and shows exciting capabilities like mathematical reasoning, code writing, and even explaining jokes.
    7 replies . 33 retweets 152 likes
    Undo
  5. Retweeted
    Apr 3

    Anyone who doesn't think creating a data set is intellectual labor should see my painstakingly researched data set that can practically tell you where Du Bois was on any given day of his life. And he was the quintessential globe-trotting academic for a solid 50 years.

    7 replies . 47 retweets 484 likes
    Undo
  6. Apr 1

    The latest push for a federal privacy law is happening in DC, so I'm reading this classic report from 1973 (!) which foresaw many of the problems. Contributors include Joseph Weizenbaum & Arthur R Miller. And check out this cover! 🎯

    4 replies . 18 retweets 62 likes
    Undo
  7. Retweeted
    Mar 31

    📢Today, Ada has published an expert legal opinion on the draft EU AI Act by Professor Lilian Edwards (). It offers four structural critiques of the proposal and four related recommendations. (1/6)

    1 reply . 72 retweets 121 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  8. Mar 29

    So ML-generated artworks are ineligible for copyright protection - without a human "creative contribution." But where's that line? Selecting the training data? Defining the objective function? This will get messy. Ruling is here:

    17 replies . 59 retweets 321 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  9. Mar 29

    Wow - the human/AI interface is about to get weirder. US Copyright Office just ruled that works "autonomously created" by algorithms cannot be copyrighted. This is the work they rejected:

    58 replies . 390 retweets 1,338 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  10. Mar 24

    Please note our names in your application, so we can distinguish your application from others (the link is a general FATE application for MSR NYC). And feel free to get in touch with any questions!

    1 retweet 5 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  11. Mar 24

    Excited to announce that & I are hiring a MSR-NYC intern for a project on the intellectual history of machine learning. If you are a PhD student in History & Philosophy of Science, STS, or related fields please apply! *Deadline Apr 4*

    4 replies . 58 retweets 120 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  12. Retweeted
    Mar 15

    Last year, Kentucky Senator Brandon Smith authored legislation giving Bitcoin mines millions in tax breaks—a few months later, he incorporated his own mining business. I took a road trip through Kentucky, where the bitcoin industry is making a big push:

    58 replies . 622 retweets 1,122 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  13. Mar 24

    New special issue on algorithms, antagonism and agonism: that's triple A+. Congrats to and all the contributors 👇💯👌

    The Algorithmic Antagonisms Special Issue of is just out! Nine articles by fantastic researchers, activists, artists on antagonizing and resisting algorithmic power. Co-edited by , , and I. Find it on this 🧵 or 👇
    Show this thread
    1 reply . 6 retweets 29 likes
    Undo
  14. Retweeted
    Mar 16

    Oh ! Les ont traduit le livre de ! dont je vous parlais il y a moins d'un an ! - c'est la fête des livres sur le numérique en ce moment !

    1 reply . 16 retweets 24 likes
    Undo
  15. Mar 8

    Oscar Gandy wrote one of the most important books on technology & power almost 30 years ago. This special forum reflects on the influence of The Panoptic Sort, with John Cheney-Lippold, Joseph Turow, me, and more from Oscar.

    1 reply . 12 retweets 41 likes
    Undo
  16. Retweeted
    Mar 3

    Stoked for the Tanner Lecture tonight at featuring - at 4pm PT she gives a lecture on "Excavating Ground Truth in AI" - on Friday I'll join a follow-up panel with and - Register here:

    5 retweets 28 likes
    Undo
  17. Retweeted
    Mar 2

    Thrilled & grateful that will be publishing my piece “The Master’s Tools and a Mission: Using Communtiy Control and Oversight Laws to Resist and Abolish Police Surveillance Technologies” Thanks to so many who provided insights, feedback & support. SSRN post soon!

    29 replies . 41 retweets 301 likes
    Undo
  18. Retweeted
    Mar 2

    This publication is a colle. of transcripts of eight interviews that conducted as part of the (re)programming · Strategies for Self-Renewal. with , , , 👉🏻

    1 reply . 14 retweets 65 likes
    Undo
  19. Retweeted
    Feb 28

    The uncanny confluence of Putin's invasion and the IPCC report is a stark reminder: fossil fuel powers the worst crises facing our planet. If we use this moment to get off oil and gas, we have a fighting chance as a planet.

    145 replies . 2,460 retweets 6,958 likes
    Undo
  20. Retweeted
    Feb 23

    Horribly sad to see news of what’s unfolding in Ukraine. Standing in solidarity with Ukrainians here and there. As we turn to social media for information, let’s be extra careful that we don’t become unwitting agents in the spread of disinformation. Go slow. Vet your sources.

    54 replies . 2,686 retweets 6,962 likes
    Show this thread
    Show this thread
    Undo
  21. Feb 20

    Is this...a stealth announcement of a cloning program?

    Identical twin brothers Josh & Jeremy married identical twin sisters Brittany & Briana. Both couples gave birth to baby boys at the same time. Although technically cousins, the boys are genetically brothers. It gets more weird: Both families live together in the same house.
    6 replies . 4 retweets 53 likes
    Undo

@katecrawford hasn't Tweeted yet.

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·