AI Safety · Research · Author

Katherine Elkins

Katherine Elkins is a scholar of AI, literature, and philosophy. She represents the Modern Language Association at the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium (CAISI) and is Co-PI of the Schmidt Sciences HAVI project Archival Intelligence.

  • Co-Founder & Co-Director, Human-Centered AI Lab
  • Co-leading the MLA team at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium
  • Co-PI, Schmidt Sciences HAVI (“Archival Intelligence”)
  • Working on a series of essays on AI and what the dominant frameworks miss

Visit Wikipedia for a current summary of research collaborations across academia, industry, and government.

Katherine Elkins, AI safety researcher and author

Early on AI

News & Media

Feb 2026

Christian Science Monitor — quoted on language-model evaluation at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium

Feb 2026

NPR / WOSU — “Could AI Save Endangered Archives?”

Jun 2025

Chronicle of Higher Education Virtual Forum — invited speaker

Dec 2025

Engineering (Chinese Academy of Sciences / Elsevier) — translation research featured

Nov 2025

Forbes — “Where AI Meets the Humanities”

Oct 2025

OpenAI Higher Education Forum — Education Guild selected speaker

Oct 2025

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar — METC Conference keynote