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Kate Crawford
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Professor, researcher, maker of things Book: ATLAS OF AI Latest: CALCULATING EMPIRES calculatingempires.net | MSR-NYC | @USC | Knowing Machines
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    Kate Crawford
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    Jun 20, 2024
    🎉 Launching online today: "Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500." Dive into our large-scale interactive visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. 🧵
    Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500
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    Kate Crawford
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    Apr 1, 2021
    "If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology — and you don’t understand your problems." Laurie Anderson, 2020
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Feb 17, 2021
    • This AI does not "read children's emotions" • There are not seven universal emotions • Facial muscle data does not correlate reliably with a person's inner state Covid is being used as a pretext to install this in remote classes, then keep it. edition.cnn.com/2021/02/16/tec…
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Apr 4, 2023
    ChatGPT strikes again. A journalist contacted me to research her profile on @lexfridman. ChatGPT informed her that @_KarenHao and I were his top critics. It cited articles we'd written about him, gave links, and summaries. Only problem: it's all false. Here's what she sent me:
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    Kate Crawford
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    Mar 21, 2023
    Umm, anyone a little concerned that Bard is saying its training dataset includes... Gmail? I'm assuming that's flat out wrong, otherwise Google is crossing some serious legal boundaries.
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    Alphabet & Google have confirmed that this is an error and Bard's dataset is not using GMAIL data. twitter.com/GoogleWorkspac… searchenginejournal.com/google-bard-tr… appleinsider.com/articles/23/03…
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Feb 15, 2017
    Jaw-dropping list of trending stories on the NYT right now
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Aug 6, 2018
    Stunning: new rigorous evidence shows that wellness programs have NO significant impact. Apart from this: they massively increase the surveillance of workers, which we show here. @iajunwa @Lawgeek nytimes.com/2018/08/06/ups…
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Sep 7, 2017
    Meanwhile, a new attack uses ultrasonic commands to make Siri & Alexa do anything, but no human can hear it. fastcodesign.com/90139019/a-sim…
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Sep 19, 2018
    We saw this coming, and here it is. Endless trapdoors ahead: data inaccuracies, intentional gaming, constant intimate surveillance 24/7, data breaches that will be infinitely worse, &c...
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    Horace Dediu
    @asymco
    Sep 19, 2018
    John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance and instead sell only interactive policies that track fitness and health data through wearable devices
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Jun 1, 2018
    This is HUGE. And it's all thanks to the thousands of Google workers who came together to refuse to work on AI for military programs.
    Google Backs Away From Controversial Military Drone Project
    From buzzfeednews.com
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Jan 23, 2019
    Time for a collective eyeroll from all of us who actually research this issue. @AOC was talking about facial recognition systems. They're proven to have bias issues. But this is how it gets reported.
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Sep 7, 2018
    Thrilled to launch a big project today: ANATOMY OF AN AI SYSTEM. It's a large map & long-form essay about Amazon's Echo, and the full stack of capital, labor, and natural resources used in AI. It's a collab with @TheCreaturesLab, who is a visual genius ✨
    Anatomy of an AI System
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    Anatomy of an AI System
    Anatomy of an AI System - The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources. By Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2018)
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Feb 20, 2020
    Let's talk about the 10%. What if the AI surgeon was trained on data that oversampled white men (as per many controlled trials)? And it consistently produces worse outcomes for Black people and women? Seems like it matters who "you" are in this hypothetical 🤔
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    Geoffrey Hinton
    @geoffreyhinton
    Feb 20, 2020
    Suppose you have cancer and you have to choose between a black box AI surgeon that cannot explain how it works but has a 90% cure rate and a human surgeon with an 80% cure rate. Do you want the AI surgeon to be illegal?
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    Kate Crawford
    @katecrawford
    Nov 2, 2021
    So Facebook is deleting one billion facial recognition scans, but it's keeping DeepFace, the model that is trained on all those faces. Note that "the company has also not ruled out incorporating facial recognition into future products." Very meta. 👀
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    The New York Times
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    Nov 2, 2021
    Breaking News: Facebook plans to delete face scan data from over 1 billion users, shutting down a facial recognition system that became a privacy headache. nyti.ms/3CEwF5r