Technology Quotes by Kate Crawford

Self-tracking using a wearable device can be fascinating.

— Kate Crawford

We need to be vigilant about how we design and train these machine-learning systems, or we will see ingrained forms of bias built into…

— Kate Crawford

Big data sets are never complete.

— Kate Crawford

While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.

— Kate Crawford

People think 'big data' avoids the problem of discrimination because you are dealing with big data sets, but, in fact, big data is being…

— Kate Crawford

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

— Kate Crawford

Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define…

— Kate Crawford

We urgently need more due process with the algorithmic systems influencing our lives. If you are given a score that jeopardizes your ability to…

— Kate Crawford

Sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination are being built into the machine-learning algorithms that underlie the technology behind many 'intelligent' systems that shape…

— Kate Crawford

Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there's the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new worlds from…

— Kate Crawford

The amount of money and industrial energy that has been put into accelerating AI code has meant that there hasn't been as much energy…

— Kate Crawford

Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters - from who designs it to who…

— Kate Crawford