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born 1974 Australia

Kate Crawford (born 1974) is a researcher, writer, composer, producer and academic, who studies the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. She is based in New York and works as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective), the co-founder and former director of research at the AI Now Institute at NYU, a visiting professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media, a senior fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU, and an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.

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Controlling time — whether via the clocks for churches, trains or data centers — has always been a function of controlling the political order.”

From the perspective of deep time, we are extracting Earth's geological history to serve a split second of contemporary technological time, building devices like the Amazon Echo and iPhone that are often designed to last for only a few years.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kate Crawford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.