Events / Boston College

Kate Crawford | Costs of Scale: Mapping the Challenges of AI

Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 7 PM to 8 PM

Where

Boston College, Gasson Hall, 100
140 Commonwealth Ave, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 (Newton)

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talkscience

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Lecture

As AI systems grow in scale, their costs are growing with them, often hidden from view. In this talk, Kate Crawford maps three interlocking challenges of generative AI. First, control failures: as models become more complex and opaque, the ability to predict and audit their activity is lagging dange

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