AI safety researcher · computational humanities scholar · author
Katherine Elkins studies how artificial intelligence reshapes human meaning: how models interpret language, generate stories, encode values, simulate creativity, alter institutions, and change the conditions under which people judge, teach, remember, and know.
Track record
2016
Human-centered AI curriculum and AI CoLab
2020
GPT-3 Writer's Turing Test
2022
The Shapes of Stories, Cambridge University Press
2024
CAISI / AI safety audit / PMLA / ICML oral
2025
Schmidt Sciences HAVI / Public AI / OpenAI Higher Education Forum
At a glance
Standards & Safety
Co-leads the team representing the Modern Language Association at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium.
Research Grant
Co-PI of the Schmidt Sciences HAVI project Archival Intelligence.
Book
Cambridge Element on sentiment analysis for narrative, Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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Six topic areas spanning AI safety, storytelling, creativity, mind, governance, and higher education.
Selected press, broadcast, and public scholarship across research, standards work, and archival intelligence.
Authored and edited volumes, including The Shapes of Stories and the Proust philosophical perspectives collection.
Awards, grants, appointments, and scholarly reception across academia, industry, and government.
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