🎉 Launching online today:
"Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500."

Dive into our large-scale interactive visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. 🧵 calculatingempires.net

Este febrero sacamos en @babelia una portada con Calculating empires, la magnífica obra expansiva de @katecrawford y @TheCreaturesLab sobre tecnología y poder
elpais.com/babelia/2025-0…

Hoy esa obra abre la expo de la temporada en el @MuseumModernArt moma.org/calendar/exhib…

I've long regarded @katecrawford as one of the most lucid and urgent voices in the realm of AI, so it was incredibly meaningful to hear this shoutout during her excellent conversation at @ArtBasel. To be seen by someone like Kate as a "rare" example of an artist approaching AI ye, asking questions, pushing boundaries in a sea of AI "spectacularism and distraction" and "cool images" - it truly means a lot.

Panelists Demis Hassabis, Kate Crawford and Glenn Fogel explored the practical and ethical dimensions of AI’s real-world rollout time.com/collections/ti…

This is cool

calculatingempires.net/?pos=17614.75%…

The 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.

So it goes deeper than just the US and UK not signing the agreement. There are deep ideological divides, and multiple fractures.

The AI Summit opens with @AnneBouverot centering three issues for AI: sustainability, jobs, and public infrastructure. Glad to see these core problems raised from the start. #AIsummit

Calculating Empires is on the cover of EL PAIS today! Interview with Vladan & I about our two exhibitions in Spain, and the connections of politics, history, theory, and technology in our work and personal lives 📰 @el_pais @minipetite @TheCreaturesLab elpais.com/babelia/2025-0…

Estoy muy contenta. Ha salido la portada de @babelia_elpais sobre Calculando Imperios, el trabajo de @katecrawford y @TheCreaturesLab sobre Tecnología y poder. Gracias @jordiamat22

elpais.com/babelia/2025-0…

DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @SashaMTL @strubell, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread: 🧵

Conclusion: AI advances can't reduce climate impacts if they fuel exponential consumption
📌 Energy efficiency alone isn't enough
📌 Integrate total lifecycle assessments + socioeconomic analysis for climate interventions
📌 Address AI-driven economic & behavioral shifts

🌎Full paper here:
"From Efficiency Gains to Rebound Effects: The Problem of Jevons’ Paradox in AI’s Polarized Environmental Debate"
arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16548

My piece in @WIRED on 2025: the year of AI agents. The coming psychopolitical regime "directs the environments where our ideas are born, developed, and expressed.

We will be playing an imitation game that ultimately plays us."
wired.com/story/ai-agent…

"Calculating Empires" is the most amazing visualisation I've ever seen, a work of art at every level, spent minutes scrolling and there appears to be no end. calculatingempires.net

AI unplugged! @katecrawford in conversation with @TobyWalsh

Join us for a fascinating discussion on the impact of artificial intelligence.

#AI @unsw_ai
@csesoc
@UNSWCOMPUTING
@UNSWEngineering

eventbrite.com.au/e/ai-unplugged…

Does more compute equate with greater risk?

What is our track record at predicting what risks emerge with scale?

I don't have much time anymore to write, but this felt important enough to write down some thoughts on.

arxiv.org/pdf/2407.05694…