Kate Crawford has spent years uncovering the real infrastructure of artificial intelligence. She is not interested in the glossy fantasy of machine minds. She studies the physical world behind them. Her research moves through mines, deserts, server halls, supply chains, and borders. She investigates the industries that dig, smelt, ship, refine, and assemble the materials that make computation possible. Born in Australia and now based in the United States, she has worked inside major research labs, universities, and museums, and her writing and art have reshaped how people understand the cost of modern technology.

Reflections on a year spent teaching history at the United States Military Academy

What the biggest military crackdown in decades says about his strength

The US military is upgrading a Cold War base in the Caribbean it abandoned 20 years ago. Experts say it’s a step towards sustained operations in the region.

Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.

Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. This wartime state expansion is examined through the creation, structure...