Kate Crawford (born 1974)[1] is a researcher, writer, composer, producer and academic, who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence.

[21] In 2019 she was the inaugural holder of the AI & Justice visiting chair at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, in partnership with the Fondation Abeona.

In 2006 her book based on this dissertation, Adult Themes – Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood,[23] won the individual category of the Manning Clark National Cultural Award[24][25] and in 2008 she received the biennial medal for outstanding scholarship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

[38] She published a book Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence through Yale University Press in 2021.

[39][40] Her article, "Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion",[41] was shortlisted for The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing in 2022.