About this Event
Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of artificial intelligence. She is a Professor at USC, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR, and founder of the Knowing Machines Group. Her award-winning book Atlas of AI was named a best book of the year by The Financial Times, won three international prizes, and has been translated into fourteen languages. Beyond her scholarly work, she is an award-winning artist whose work explores the themes of technology, history, and power. She has had exhibitions in over 100 museums worldwide and has works in the permanent collections of MoMA, the V&A, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, and the Design Museum. Her latest work with Vladan Joler, Calculating Empires, won the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 and the European Commission's grand prize for art and technology. TIME 100 named Crawford as one of the world’s most influential people in AI.
Cosponsored by the University Core Curriculum and the Boston College Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics.
All Lowell Humanities Series lectures are free and open to the public. Registration via Eventbrite is required for in-person attendance.
The Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Provost's Office.
Event venue & nearby stays
Gasson Hall 100, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, United States
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