Kate Crawford is a researcher and professor whose work centers on the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. Kate Crawford's Twitter Score is 50 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of September 2026, ranking #18,271 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Kate Crawford works at University of Southern California as a Research Professor and at Microsoft Research as a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR-NYC. She also holds the inaugural visiting chair for AI and justice at École Normale Supérieure. She co-founded the AI Now Institute alongside Meredith Whittaker, and co-founded FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics in AI) at Microsoft Research. She leads the Knowing Machines Project, a research initiative examining how machine learning systems are trained and what assumptions they encode.
Kate Crawford is the author of Atlas of AI, a book examining the material and political dimensions of artificial intelligence, and her most recent work is Calculating Empires. Her research spans AI policy, algorithmic accountability, and the broader social consequences of automated systems, areas she has advanced through her academic roles, co-founded institutes, and published work. Kate Crawford's account has 81,996 followers as of September 2026 and 2,258 posts. She has been mentioned by 136 accounts, with 378 mentions in total.
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