Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly appears in Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires as the Q&A interlocutor pressing Kate Crawford on whether public, sovereign, or publicly accountable AI could exist; whether AI critique is partly capitalism critique; and what would need to change for AI to benefit more people over decades.

His role in this source is to turn Crawford’s historical-material critique into governance questions. The exchange helps define Public Interest AI around public accountability, sustainability, consent-based data, and careful domain selection rather than simply building national copies of the largest private AI stacks.

Connections

• Kate Crawford - speaker he questions.
• Long Now - event context.
• Public Interest AI - main governance idea surfaced in the Q&A.
• AI Metabolic Infrastructure and Jevons Paradox In AI - resource constraints that complicate sovereign or public AI replication.