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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”)
- Writing on AI across the humanities, cognitive science, and philosophy of information
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Early on AI
A concise trajectory across curriculum design, frontier-model evaluation, public scholarship, and interdisciplinary AI research.
- 2016Co-founded Human-Centered AI Lab and early human-centered AI curriculum work at Kenyon College
- 2019First 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
- 2022Helix Center roundtable on natural language generation systems with Ned Block, Francesca Rossi, and Kyunghyun Cho — one month before ChatGPT
- 2022The Shapes of Stories (Cambridge Element, Cambridge University Press)
- 2024Appointed to co-lead the team representing the Modern Language Association at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium
- 2024ICML oral presentation on open-source generative AI risks
- 2025Schmidt Sciences HAVI grant — Archival Intelligence (one of 23 teams worldwide)
- 2025OpenAI Higher Education Forum, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar keynote
- 2026OSU Chase Center on civic education after AI