Kate Crawford
Research professor · USC Annenberg
Maps AI as an extractive industry: minerals, energy, labour, and classification. Atlas of AI is the book most groups can start with.
Voices
Who to read in each topic
Not a ranking. People and groups whose public work helps you go deeper. Save a piece to review later, or open it in a new tab.
The rules, forums, and public bodies trying to keep pace.Rights, remedies, and what the law still cannot see.Boards, buyers, workforce, and the institutions that must say yes or no.Compute, models, nations, and who holds the future in their hands.Whether capable systems can be steered toward what we actually intend.Catastrophe, loss of control, and the disagreement about how to think about either.
Meredith Whittaker
President · Signal
Connects concentration of compute, surveillance business models, and labour. A voice for groups asking who owns the stack.
Daron Acemoglu
Economist · MIT
Power and Progress asks whether a technical gain becomes a shared one. A good first book for labour, inequality, and who captures the surplus.
International Committee of the Red Cross
Humanitarian policy on AI
Writes from international humanitarian law, not from product. Essential when a conversation touches conflict, weapons, or civilian protection.