Katherine Elkins

A Timeline of Anticipation

• 2016
  Co-founded Human-Centered AI Lab and the world's first human-centered AI curriculum at Kenyon College
• 2019
  First transdisciplinary AI research, Modernist Studies Association
• 2020
  “Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test?” published in the Journal of Cultural Analytics months after the GPT-3 API release
• 2022
  Helix Center roundtable on natural language generation systems with Ned Block, Francesca Rossi, and Kyunghyun Cho — one month before ChatGPT
• 2022
  The Shapes of Stories (Cambridge Element, Cambridge University Press)
• 2024
  Appointed to co-lead the team representing the Modern Language Association at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium
• 2024
  ICML oral presentation (top 2%): open-source generative AI risks
• 2025
  Schmidt Sciences HAVI grant — Archival Intelligence (one of 23 teams worldwide)
• 2025
  OpenAI Higher Education Forum, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar keynote
• 2026
  OSU Chase Center on civic education after AI