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Kate Crawford is a researcher, writer, composer, producer and academic, who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence.… more

Kate Crawford
H-index: 48
Communication & Media Studies 21%
Computer science 20%
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Join us on Wednesday, October 8, for SciCafe: Mapping the Costs of AI. Kate Crawford (@katecrawford.bsky.social), research professor at the University of Southern California, will explore the environmental and human cost of AI systems.

SciCafe is 21+ and free with RSVP. Get tickets: bit.ly/4nB7w33
The Hidden Costs of AI: SciCafe October 8 | AMNH
Kate Crawford will explore the hidden costs of artificial intelligence and how its vast infrastructure reshapes our physical world.
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katecrawford.bsky.social
Thanks Jer! 💚
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jerthorp.bsky.social
This video is really important.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.

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Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
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mlehmann.ca
"Metabolic images are visual material made by consuming billions of other images to be broken down and absorbed by #AI models via a gargantuan infrastructure that absorbs energy and water, and excretes media, atmospheric carbon, and other pollutants." — @katecrawford.bsky.social
Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.
www.e-flux.com
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aurel-porte.bsky.social
If you're in Paris, don’t miss The world through AI at Jeu de Paume !

The exhibition is brillant and goes beyond generative AI hype.

Special mention to Calculating Empire by Crawford & Joler — a mind-blowing map of technological power.

#art #AI #Paris @katecrawford.bsky.social
A close-up of Calculating Empire by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler. The map’s structure is meticulously organized, yet as you begin to read, it feels like navigating a labyrinth of information — where the exit (or perhaps the origin?) seems to be our own contemporary reality. A bigger view but still detail. The artwork is huge an takes an entire room
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samuelmoore.org
"The current approach to AI cannot sustain itself indefinitely. The question becomes not whether current AI slop economies will destroy themselves, but when."

By @katecrawford.bsky.social

www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.
www.e-flux.com
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katecrawford.bsky.social
New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop."
AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.
www.e-flux.com
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philipdisalvo.bsky.social
Back in print in the latest @wired.it with an interview with the brilliant @katecrawford.bsky.social. At a time when the AI industry reveals its imperialist, extractivist drive, we need critical perspectives and counter-narratives more than ever.
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thanks for sharing it!
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Substack
Sunday Thread + Mailbox + JOBS!

Send us your questions As usual, you can drop your questions below for Friday’s mailbag, but we also wanted to pass along four job opportunities at a soon-to-launch Substack that may be of interest to folks who enjoy what we do at Slow Boring:

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katecrawford.bsky.social
Hallucinations and vibe citing - a primer for public policy in 2025 🫠
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Seems like a good time to re-up @katecrawford.bsky.social‬'s brilliant coining: "hallucitations".
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · May 30
Tired: "BS"

Wired: "Vibe citing"

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations
www.nytimes.com
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alondra.bsky.social
Register to join this timely discussion on June 2, in person or on line, with @katecrawford.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social, hosted by my Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study www.ias.edu/events/raree...
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katecrawford.bsky.social
The EPA is being rolled back to the 1980s. Think big hair, WHAM, and Exxon hiding the fact that burning fossil fuels was driving climate change.
US EPA plans to reduce staff to 1980s levels, dissolve research office
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans on Friday to slash its budget by $300 million in fiscal year 2026, reduce staffing to 1980s levels and dissolve its research and development office as part of a sweeping overhaul of the agency.
www.reuters.com
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Substack
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Substack
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Substack
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katecrawford.bsky.social
perhaps...but the incontrovertible evidence is already out there, and these kinds of cases tie up and financially ruin organizations
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katecrawford.bsky.social
We've gone from climate change denial to climate change criminalization. First they defund the science, now the FBI is prosecuting groups like Habitat for Humanity for fraud.
newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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harikunzru.bsky.social
The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists
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katecrawford.bsky.social
Meta *removed* @gilduran.com's article because it was about "topics like the ‘Network State’ concept and critiques of tech industry figures..." 👀
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Mar 12
Meta rep flagged "critiques of tech industry figures" as "sensitive or controversial content." I spoke to @gilduran.com about concerns over how free Meta's new "free speech" policies really are
Meta rep flagged 'critiques of tech industry figures' as 'sensitive or controversial content'
Meta said that the journalist "should never have received this response," but the incident set off a wave of concern over censorship online.
www.usermag.co
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katecrawford.bsky.social
And now for the latest in fresh hell...
Yale Scholar Banned After A.I. News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link
The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.
www.nytimes.com
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katecrawford.bsky.social
Generated AI plants are thriving online, with fake "seeds" selling on Amazon - people gravitating to impossible flora while real plants vanish. We're enchanted with simulacra as actual biodiversity disappears.
@giovannialoi.bsky.social cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/02...
Fighting a new invasive species: AI's impossible flora | Center for the Study of World Religions
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jameeljaffer.bsky.social
Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/
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katecrawford.bsky.social
Rare earths are central to the US administration's capture strategy: from Ukraine to Greenland. When people exclude the mineral dependencies of AI (as with most everything else) they're missing the story www.ft.com/content/65ee...
Why rare earths matter to Donald Trump and the west
China dominates market in metals used in range of products, including those crucial for national security
www.ft.com
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mpiwg.bsky.social
Next up in our Institute’s Colloquium Series “History of Science in Public”: Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social will talk on "Mapping #AI: How to See Planetary-Scale #ArtificialIntelligence.”

🗓️ Mar 25, 2025 (14:00 CET)
🔗 bitly.cx/m0KeS
📍 relocated: MPIWG Main conference room

#HistSci #SciComm
Poster showing the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium 2024–25 program.
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