Professor, researcher, maker of things ~Book: Atlas of AI ~Installation: Calculating Empires ~NYT video: AI's Real Environmental Impact https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/ai-quartz-mining-hurricane-helene.htmlhttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3ma4egl3esk2h📢 It's the last week for PhD students to apply for an internship with FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) in NYC! 🎉 We welcome a wide range of disciplines (CS, STS, law, anthro, media studies, philosophy) https://apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job?pid=197039355662787416 Dec 2025 14:32 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4egl3esk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3lydvqthuvk2zNew 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. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/intensification/6782975/eating-the-future-the-metabolic-logic-of-ai-slop08 Sep 2025 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lydvqthuvk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3lo7ny2glns2yThe 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. https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/us-epa-plans-reduce-staff-1980s-levels-cut-budget-by-300-million-2025-05-02/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=681520c3925fde00018f39cd&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky02 May 2025 20:27 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo7ny2glns2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3lkc3s4bjss2aWe'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. https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations13 Mar 2025 21:59 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkc3s4bjss2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3lk765oawmc2gMeta *removed* @gilduran.com's article because it was about "topics like the ‘Network State’ concept and critiques of tech industry figures..." 👀 [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Mar 2025 18:03 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk765oawmc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3lk72ib2cq22gAnd now for the latest in fresh hell... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/yale-suspends-scholar-terrorism.html12 Mar 2025 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk72ib2cq22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3ljzpmmyq7c2vGenerated 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 https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/02/fighting-new-invasive-species-ais-impossible-flora https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/02/fighting-new-invasive-species-ais-impossible-flora?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email10 Mar 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljzpmmyq7c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3ljnbcid5ec25Rare 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 https://www.ft.com/content/65ee2baf-58ab-42e7-997b-7114c8920a9105 Mar 2025 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljnbcid5ec25https://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3liiojl76kk2bThe International Energy Agency just increased its prior growth predictions for energy demand. Data centers are one of the major drivers. Here's why that's significant: https://www.theverge.com/news/614356/china-us-electricity-demand-ai-data-center-manufacturing-iea-report19 Feb 2025 02:00 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3liiojl76kk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3lhw2ygt3rc2cThe AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.11 Feb 2025 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhw2ygt3rc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3lhnulbn5pk2gWhoa! Calculating Empires made the front cover of Saturday's El PAIS newspaper. Far-ranging interview on the interconnections of politics, theory, and technology in our work and personal lives: from the Serbian protests to the AI Summit. @elpais.com @minipetite.bsky.social https://elpais.com/babelia/2025-02-08/de-gutenberg-a-elon-musk-historia-poder-y-tecnologia.html08 Feb 2025 10:06 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhnulbn5pk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3lhbtdfarmc2eThis week the first provisions of the AI Act take effect. Prohibited AI systems include: emotion recognition in schools & work (a victory there), social rating systems, predictive policing for individuals & real-time facial recognition in public spaces. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/02/02/artificial-intelligence-the-first-measures-of-the-european-ai-act-regulation-take-effect_6737691_13.html03 Feb 2025 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:mpurbf7q3ebtkoczlqaj6j6o/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhbtdfarmc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/katecrawford.bsky.social/post/3lgvk2rooqc2rDeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. 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