Kate Crawford

Kate Crawford is the Long Now speaker in Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires. The source presents her as an AI scholar and researcher using history, visual culture, infrastructure, political economy, and field observation to analyze artificial intelligence as a material system.

Her role in the wiki is to connect the AI branch to extraction and representation. Crawford argues that AI should be mapped through AI Metabolic Infrastructure: scraped data, commercial datasets, data centers, minerals, water, energy, labor, carbon, and e-waste. She also treats generative media as a political and cultural force through AI Slop, slopaganda, and Model Collapse.

Connections

• Long Now - venue for the talk.
• Calculating Empires - Crawford’s timeline and cartographic project discussed in the source.
• AI Metabolic Infrastructure, AI Slop, Model Collapse, and Public Interest AI - main concepts attached to the talk.
• Critical Minerals Geopolitics, Data Center Backlash, Data Center Thermal Management, and Jevons Paradox In AI - infrastructure and resource branches she extends.
• AI Literacy Against Worship and Human Judgment Under AI - public-understanding and democratic-agency implications of the talk.