Mapping Time

Schedule

Wed Nov 12 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Cowell Theater | San Francisco, CA

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The Long Now Foundation welcomes

Kate Crawford

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Mix & mingle over drinks & small bites with other attendees at our pre & post-show gathering in the re-imagined Cowell Theater Lobby!


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Kate Crawford is an internationally leading scholar of AI and its impacts. She is a Professor at the University of Southern California in LA, a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Labs New York, Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, and the inaugural visiting chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. She founded multiple research centers around the world, and currently leads the interdisciplinary lab called Knowing Machines. Her award-winning book, , has been translated into twelve languages, won multiple international prizes, including the Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, and the ASSI&T Best Information Science Book Award. It was also named a best book of the year by The Financial Times and New Scientist. She has advised policymakers in the White House, the European Parliament, and the United Nations, and is currently on the AI Council of President Sanchez of Spain. She has produced widely-cited research in publications such as Nature, Science, Technology & Human Values, and AI and Society.

In addition to her scholarly work, Crawford is an award-winning artist. Her project with Vladan Joler is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, and was awarded the Design of the Year Award in 2019 and included in the Design of the Decades by the Design Museum of London. Her collaboration with the artist Trevor Paglen, , won the Ayrton Prize from the British Society for the History of Science. Her most recent work, , won the European Commission's Grand Prize for work that spans the arts, science, and technology. It is currently on show at the Venice Biennale, where it won the Silver Lion award. She was named in the inaugural TIME100 list of the most influential people in AI.


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Our mission at is to foster long-term thinking and responsibility. Through our Long Now Talks series which began in 02003 and features speakers from around the world, we hope to ignite cultural imagination around long-term thinking. The talks are filmed live in San Francisco, and we release podcasts and videos from them which are publicly available online.

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Cowell Theater, Pier 2, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, United States

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